fuego

From Latin focus.

fuego m

1. fire

From Late Latin focum, singular accusative of focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfweɡo/, /ˈhweɡo/

fuego m (plural fuegos)

1. fire
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63v.

     […] en ſemblança delas beſtias ſuujſta cuemo braſas de fuego encendidas e ſemblanca de lampades

     […] the appearance of the creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches

• Ladino: fuego
• Spanish: fuego

• huego (rare, mostly obsolete)
• fogo (rare, obsolete)

From Old Spanish fuego, from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). The form huego, which began to be used around 1500, was mostly replaced by the form starting with -f-[1]. Compare Portuguese fogo. Cognate with English fuel. Compare also English focus. Doublet of foco, which is a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfweɡo/ [ˈfwe.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: fue‧go
• (non-standard) IPA^(key): [ˈɸweɣo], [ˈhweɣo]
• Hyphenation: fue‧go

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fuego m (plural fuegos)

1. fire

¡fuego!

1. (military) fire! (cry to order soldiers to start shooting)

• “fuego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014