fungo

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡoʊ

fungo (plural fungos or fungoes)

1. (baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

   The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.

   • 2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.

2. (baseball, informal) A fungo bat.

   He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.

• fungo bat

fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

1. (baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

• unfog

From Latin fungus.

fungo

1. mushroom

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfunɡo/

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• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: fun‧go

fungo (accusative singular fungon, plural fungoj, accusative plural fungojn)

1. fungus

• ĉampinjono

Learned borrowing from Latin fungus.

fungo m (plural fungos)

1. fungus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fungar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of fungar

• “fungo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “fungo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

fungo (plural fungos)

1. fungus

• IPA^(key): /ˈfun.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: fùn‧go

From Latin fungus.

fungo m (plural funghi)

1. mushroom
2. fungus

• micologia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fungere

fungō

1. dative/ablative singular of fungus

• Hyphenation: fun‧go

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

fungo m (plural fungos)

1. fungus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fungar

From -funga (“to fast; to tie up”).

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fungo class V (plural mafungo class VI)

1. (Islam) period of fasting
2. (finance) bond