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. Compare loci and fungi for parallel cases.

Anagrams

• FICO, coif, fico

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in 1901. Clipping and -ci diminutive of futball (“soccer”) (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 (or fociim)
2nd person sing.	focid	focijaid (or fociid)
3rd person sing.	focija	focijai (or focii)
1st person plural	focink	focijaink (or fociink)
2nd person plural	focitok	focijaitok (or fociitok)
3rd person plural	focijuk	focijaik (or fociik)

Derived terms

• focis
• focista
• focizik

Compound words

• focicsapat
• fociedzés
• focilabda
• focimeccs
• focipálya
• gombfoci
• teremfoci

Further reading

• foci in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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

• fico, fico-

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.kiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.t͡ʃi]

Noun

focī

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

References

• "foci", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfot͡ʃʲ]

Noun

foci f

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