foculare

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From focus (“fireplace”) +‎ -ulus (“diminutive suffix”) +‎ -āre (“relative suffix”). ==== Alternative forms ==== focolāre, foculāris ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔ.kʊˈɫaː.rɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fo.kuˈlaː.re] ==== Noun ==== foculāre n (genitive foculāris); third declension (Late Latin) a fireplace, hearth Synonym: focus ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== fōculāre inflection of fōculō: present active infinitive second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative === References === “foculāre” in volume 6, column 1, line 986 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fŏcŭlaris”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 651