Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. · Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. · Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo provide with fuel. · To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).
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