Borrowed fromLatin fungus ( “ mushroom ” ) .
fungus fungus (countable anduncountable plural fungi or ( uncommon ) funguses or ( nonstandard , rare ) fungusses
( mycology ) Fungi eukaryotic organism typically havingchitin cell walls but nochlorophyll orplastids . Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere ”, inThe Economist [1] 408 , number8845 , archived fromthe original on14 August 2020 :Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria andfungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
( now rare , pathology ) spongy ,abnormal excrescence , such as excessivegranulation tissue formed in awound .any member of the kingdomFungi
Afrikaans:swam fungus Albanian:këpurdhë f Arabic:فُطْر (ar) m ( fuṭr ) Egyptian Arabic:فطر m ( feṭr ) Armenian:սունկ (hy) ( sunk ) ,սնկիկ (hy) ( snkik ) ,բորբոս (hy) ( borbos ) Assamese:ভেঁকুৰ ( bhẽkur ) Asturian:fungu m Azerbaijani:göbələk (az) Bashkir:бәшмәктәр ( bəşməktər ) Belarusian:грыбо́к m ( hrybók ) Bengali:ছত্রাক (bn) ( chotrak ) Breton:foue (br) Bulgarian:гъба (bg) f ( gǎba ) Burmese:မှို (my) ( hmui ) Catalan:fong (ca) Chinese:Hokkien:ko͘ Mandarin:菌類 / 菌类 (zh) ( jūnlèi ) ,真菌 (zh) ( zhēnjūn ) Chuvash:кӑмпа ( kămp̬a ) Czech:houba (cs) f Danish:svamp (da) c Dutch:zwam (nl) m Erzya:пангт ( pangt ) Esperanto:fungo (eo) Estonian:seen (et) Faroese:soppur Finnish:sieni (fi) French:fongus (fr) m Galician:fungo (gl) m Georgian:სოკო ( soḳo ) German:Pilz (de) m Alemannic German:Pilz m Greek:μύκητας (el) m ( mýkitas ) Hawaiian:kalina Hebrew:פטרייה (he) f ( pitriyá ) Hindi:फफूंद f ( phaphūnd ) ,फफूँद (hi) f ( phaphū̃d ) Hungarian:gombaféle (hu) ,gomba (hu) Iban:kulat Icelandic:sveppur (is) Irish:fungas m Italian:fungo (it) Japanese:菌類 (ja) ( きんるい, kinrui ) ,真菌 (ja) ( しんきん, shinkin ) ,茸 (ja) ( きのこ, kinoko ) Kannada:ಶಿಲೀಂಧ್ರ (kn) ( śilīndhra ) Khmer:ផ្សិត (km) ( phsət ) Korean:균계 ( gyun'gye ) Lao:ເຫັດ ( het ) Latin:fungus Latvian:sēnes (lv) Lingala:liyɛbú Lithuanian:grybas (lt) Low German:Swamm m Luxembourgish:Pilzeräich Macedonian:габа f ( gaba ) Malay:kulat (ms) Brunei Malay:kulat Manx:fungys m Māori:kōpurawhetū hekaheka puruheka Marathi:बुरशी f ( burśī ) Melanau:Central Melanau:kulat Nahuatl:nanacatl (nah) Norwegian:sopp (no) Occitan:fonge (oc) Persian:قارچ (fa) ( qârč ) Plautdietsch:Pilz n Polish:grzyb (pl) m Portuguese:fungo (pt) m Quechua:k'allampa (qu) Romanian:ciupercă (ro) f Russian:гриб (ru) m ( grib ) ,грибо́к (ru) m ( gribók ) Sami:Northern Sami:guobbarat Samogitian:kremblē Sanskrit:कवकम् (sa) ( kavakam ) Sardinian:cordolinu Scottish Gaelic:fungas m Serbo-Croatian:gljȉva (sh) f гљива f Slovak:huba (sk) f Spanish:hongo (es) m Swahili:kuvu (sw) Swedish:svamp (sv) Tagalog:halamang-singaw buot apugaw kolatkolat Tajik:занбӯруғ ( zanbüruġ ) Tamil:பூஞ்சைகள் ( pūñcaikaḷ ) Telugu:శిలీంధ్రం (te) ( śilīndhraṁ ) Thai:เห็ดรา ( hèt-raa ) Tongan:talingelinga Turkish:mantar (tr) Ottoman Turkish:مانطار ( mantar ) Ukrainian:гриб (uk) m ( hryb ) ,грибо́к ( hrybók ) ( microscopic, non formal ) Uzbek:zamburugʻ (uz) Vietnamese:nấm (vi) Volapük:funig (vo) Walloon:tchampion (wa) Welsh:ffwng (cy) m Xhosa:ikhowa inkowane Yiddish:פֿונגוס m ( fungus ) ,שוואָם m or f ( shvom )
Borrowed fromLatin fungus
IPA (key ) : /ˈfʏŋ.ɡʏs/ ,/ˈfʏŋ.ɣʏs/ Hyphenation:fun‧gus fungus m plural fungi nodiminutive )
( mycology ) fungus Fungi fungus m invariable
alternative spelling offongus FromLatin fungus
fungus
fungus ( any member of the kingdomFungi ) fungus (a mushroom) Originally*sfungus . Along withAncient Greek σπόγγος ( spóngos ) , "sponge" (whence Latinspongia σφόγγος ( sphóngos ) , andOld Armenian սունկն ( sunkn ) , likely a loanword from a non-Indo-Europeansubstrate Georgian სოკო ( soḳo ) ,Tsez зикӏу ( zik’u ) ,Bezhta сакӏо ( sakʼo ) ,Moksha панга ( panga ) andErzya панго ( pango ,“ mushroom ” ) . Linguists such as Kluge and Kroonen have suggested a connection toEnglish swamp
fungus m genitive fungī second declension
mushroom ;fungus fungal growth orinfection candle -snuff ( figuratively , derogatory ) dolt ,idiot Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus Second-declension noun.
Italo-Dalmatian: Rhaeto-Romance: Gallo-Italic: Gallo-Romance:> ? Catalan:fong ( perhaps a borrowing from Aragonese/Spanish ) Ibero-Romance: Borrowings: De Vaan, Michiel (2008 ),Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN Martirosyan, Hrach (2010 ),Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages586–587 “fungus Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary “fungus Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "fungus ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis “fungus ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894 ),Latin Phrase-Book [2] Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) supremo officio in aliquem fungi (ambiguous) virtutis perfectae perfecto munere fungi (ambiguous) officio suo fungi (ambiguous) munere fungi, muneri praeesse 
