fuego
Sentences
El fuego 🔥 se propagó rápidamente , destruyendo casi por completo sus instalaciones .
🔥
The fire spread quickly, almost completely destroying their facilities.
Meaning
Concepts
Synonyms
pyro
fuego para cocinar
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fue‧go
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfweɡo/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited 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-. Compare Portuguese fogo. Cognate with English fuel. Compare also English focus. Doublet of foco, which is a borrowing from Latin.
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