fogo

fogo (plural fogos)

1. Alternative form of hogo (“strong unpleasant smell”)
   • 1824, The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 176:

     And then while you're a cooking, they say, / Such a fogo beclouds all the room, / That the girls have to group out the way, / In search of the tongs or the broom.

• “Hogo” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 193.

• goof

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɔ.ɣu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfɔ.ɣo]

fogo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fogar

From Old Galician-Portuguese fogo, from Latin focus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.ɣʊ], [ˈfo.ɣʊ]

fogo m (plural fogos)

1. flame, fire

   Synonym: lume

2. bonfire

   Synonyms: cacharela, fogueira

3. (usually in the plural) fireworks show

• “fogo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fogo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fogo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fogo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fogo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Akin to affogare (“to drown”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -oɡo
• Hyphenation: fó‧go

fogo m (uncountable) (Tuscan)

1. suffocation

   Synonym: soffocamento

2. a sense of suffocation

• fogo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Portuguese fogo.

fogo

1. fire

Inherited from Latin focum. Cognate with Old Spanish fuego, Old Occitan foc, Old French feu and Old Italian foco.

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɡo/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɡʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡo

fogo m

1. fire
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     A madre do que liurou / dos Leões Daniel / Eſſa do fogo Guardou / un Menỹo Dirrael.

     The Mother of Him who delivered Daniel from the lions saved a little boy of the tribe of Israel from the fire.

• Fala: fogu
• Galician: fogo
• Portuguese: fogo (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "fogo"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fogo, from Latin focus. Cognate with Galician fogo, Spanish fuego, Catalan foc, Occitan fuòc, French feu, Italian fuoco and Romanian foc. Doublet of foco.

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɡʷ/

• Audio (Brazil)

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• Rhymes: -oɡu
• Hyphenation: fo‧go

fogo m (plural fogos, metaphonic)

1. (uncountable) fire (chemical reaction producing a flame)
   • 1607, Luís Vaz de Camões, Rimas, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver:

     Amor he hum fogo que arde ſem ſe ver

     Love is a fire that burns without being seen

   A criança aprendeu a não colocar a mão no fogo da maneira mais difícil.

   The child learned not to put his hand in the fire the hard way.

2. fire (destructive occurrence of fire in a certain place)

   Um fogo destruiu várias lojas no centro.

   A fire destroyed several shops downtown.

   Synonym: incêndio

3. house, family
4. (military) fire (projectiles in mid-air)

   Os soldados avançaram sob fogo pesado.

   The soldiers advanced under heavy fire.

5. (poetic) flame (intense emotions)

   O fogo da paixão.

   The flame of passion.

   Synonyms: ardor, chama

6. Short for fogo de artifício.
7. a device that produces a flame; a lighter or match

   O fumante viu que não tinha fogo.

   The smoker noticed that he didn’t have a lighter.

8. (colloquial) heat (tense situation)
9. (Brazil, uncountable) pain in the ass (someone or something that is hard to deal with)

   Seu filho é fogo.

   Your kid is a pain in the ass.

   Synonym: fogo na roupa

fogo!

1. (military) fire! (an order for soldiers to shoot)
2. (colloquial) Euphemistic form of foda-se.

• “fogo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “fogo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

From Proto-Central Pacific *toŋo, from Proto-Oceanic *toŋoʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋəʀ.

fogo

1. mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza and Rhizophora spp.)

• Inia, Elizabeth K., Churchward, Maxwell C. (1998) A New Rotuman dictionary: An English-Rotuman Wordlist‎, Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 204

• fógo (obsolete)

From Latin focum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɡo/

fogo m (plural foghi)

1. fire

   El fogo el fa całor.

   Fire gives heat.

• fogaron (bonfire, stake)
• foghera (brazier)
• foghista (stoker)
• fogołaro (hearth, fireplace)
• fogozo (passionate, luxurious)