foci

See also: föci

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.kaɪ/, /ˈfəʊ.saɪ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.kaɪ/, /ˈfoʊ.saɪ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊkaɪ, -əʊsaɪ

Noun

foci

  1. plural of focus

Usage notes

Both the "hard C" and "soft C" pronunciations are accepted. Although focus has C followed by a non-frontal vowel and is thus universally pronounced with a "hard C", there is a grey area for pronouncing the plural form foci. Under normal orthography rules, the C should be transmuted due to it being followed by one of the three frontal vowels (e, i, and y), but the "hard C" pronunciation is also valid due to this word being the plural of a word that is strictly pronounced with a hard C.

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in 1901. Clipping and -ci diminutive of futball (soccer)[1] (the u changed to o).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfot͡si]
  • Hyphenation: fo‧ci
  • Rhymes: -t͡si

Noun

foci (usually uncountable, plural focik)

  1. (colloquial) soccer
    Synonyms: futball, labdarúgás

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative foci focik
accusative focit focikat
dative focinak fociknak
instrumental focival focikkal
causal-final fociért focikért
translative focivá focikká
terminative fociig focikig
essive-formal fociként focikként
essive-modal
inessive fociban focikban
superessive focin focikon
adessive focinál fociknál
illative fociba focikba
sublative focira focikra
allative focihoz focikhoz
elative fociból focikból
delative fociról focikról
ablative focitól fociktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
focié fociké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
fociéi focikéi
Possessive forms of foci
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. focim focijaim
2nd person sing. focid focijaid
3rd person sing. focija focijai
1st person plural focink focijaink
2nd person plural focitok focijaitok
3rd person plural focijuk focijaik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. foci in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • foci in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfo.t͡ʃi/
  • Rhymes: -otʃi
  • Hyphenation: fó‧ci

Noun

foci m

  1. plural of foce

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

focī

  1. inflection of focus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfot͡ʃʲ]

Noun

foci f

  1. inflection of focă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular
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