offoco

== Latin == === Alternative forms === obfōcō, offūcō, officō === Etymology === From ob- +‎ fōc- (“throat”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔfˈfoː.koː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ofˈfɔː.ko] === Verb === offōcō (present infinitive offōcāre, perfect active offōcāvī, supine offōcātum); first conjugation (transitive) to strangle, throttle, choke, suffocate ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (choke): praefōcō, suffōcō ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Reflexes of the Early Medieval variant officāre: Reflexes of an assumed variant *affōcāre: === References === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “ahogar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 87 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ŏffōcare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 337 === Further reading === “offoco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “offoco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.