focacium

Latin

Alternative forms

• focācia, fogātia f (att. 846 CE, France)

Etymology

Nominalization of the neuter of ellipsis of (panis) focācius (“(bread) of the hearth”). Attested in the Vetus Itala.

Noun

focācium n (genitive focāciī or focācī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. bread baked under ash

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	focācium	focācia
Genitive	focāciī focācī1	focāciōrum
Dative	focāciō	focāciīs
Accusative	focācium	focācia
Ablative	focāciō	focāciīs
Vocative	focācium	focācia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

(All via the plural focācia, made into a feminine noun.)

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: focaccia, cofaccia (obsolete, colloquial, Tuscan)
    • → English: focaccia
    • → Lithuanian: fokačija
    • → Sardinian: covazza
    • → Spanish: focaccia
  • Neapolitan: focazza, ficazza
  • Sicilian: fucazza, fugazza
• North Italian:
  • Ligurian: fogassa
    • → Italian: fugassa
  • Ladin: fogacia
  • Piedmontese: fogassa, foassa
  • Venetan: fogassa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: fogaça
    • Catalan: fogassa
  • Old French: fouace, fouache (northern), foace
    • French: fouace
    • Norman: fouache
  • Old Occitan: fogatza, fogassa, fogasa
    • Occitan: fogaça, fogassa
    • → Middle French: fougasse, foucasse
    • French: fougasse
      • → English: fougasse
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: focaza, fogasa
  • Asturian: fogaza
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fogaça, fugaça
    • Galician: fogaza, fugaza
    • Portuguese: fogaça
  • Spanish: hogaza

• → Byzantine Greek: πογάτσα (pogátsa)
  • Greek: μπουγάτσα (bougátsa)
  • → Albanian: pogaçe
  • → South Proto-Slavic: *pogača
    • Bulgarian: пога́ча (pogáča)
    • Macedonian: погача (pogača)
    • Serbo-Croatian: pògača / по̀гача
    • Slovene: pogáča (tonal orthography)
    • → Hungarian: pogácsa
      • → German: Pogatsche
    • → Romanian: pogace
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پوغاچه (poğaça)
    • Turkish: poğaça

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1007: “la focaccia (la schiacciata)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it