fungo
English edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fungo (plural fungos or fungoes)
- (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.
- (baseball, informal) A fungo bat.
- He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)
- (baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
Anagrams edit
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fungo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fungo (accusative singular fungon, plural fungoj, accusative plural fungojn)
See also edit
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
fungo m (plural fungos)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
fungo
- first-person singular present indicative of fungar
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of fungar
Further reading edit
- “fungo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- “fungo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
fungo (plural fungos)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
fungo m (plural funghi)
Related terms edit
- fungaia
- funghetto
- funghicolo
- funghicoltura
- funghire
- fungicida
- fungiforme
- fungino
- fungistatico
- fungivoro
- fungoide
- fungone
- fungoso
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
fungo
Latin edit
Noun edit
fungō
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fun‧go
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
fungo m (plural fungos)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
fungo
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From -funga (“to fast; to tie up”).
Pronunciation edit
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