focale

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

focale

1. feminine singular of focal

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. Cf. fuoco and -ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈka.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: fo‧cà‧le

Adjective

focale m or f by sense (plural focali)

1. focal

Related terms

• focalizzare

Anagrams

• -cefalo, cefalo, cefalo-, facole, fecola

Latin

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focale

Wikipedia

Etymology

From fōc- (“throat”) +‎ -āle.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [foːˈkaː.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [foˈkaː.le]

Noun

fōcāle n (genitive fōcālis); third declension

1. a neckcloth, cravat worn by sick people

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	fōcāle	fōcālia
genitive	fōcālis	fōcālium
dative	fōcālī	fōcālibus
accusative	fōcāle	fōcālia
ablative	fōcālī	fōcālibus
vocative	fōcāle	fōcālia

References

• “focale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “focale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers