fungi

Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).

There are multiple pronunciations in current English use. More American dictionaries favour the pronunciation /ˈfʌndʒaɪ/ or /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/, while more British dictionaries favour the pronunciation /ˈfʌŋɡiː/ or /ˈfʌndʒiː/. However, all four pronunciations are in use in both countries.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fŭnʹjī, fŭngʹgī; IPA^(key): /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/, /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/, /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/, /ˈfʌŋɡiː/

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• Rhymes: -ʌndʒi

fungi

2. (pathology) Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
3. plural of fungus

• fungi imperfecti

See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːnd͡ʒi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfund͡ʒi/
• (Caribbean) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːnd͡ʒiː/
• Hyphenation: fun‧gi

fungi (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of fungee (“a cornmeal dish from the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish, or chicken”)
2. (by extension, music) A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.

   Synonyms: quelbe, scratch

•   cou-cou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   fungi (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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fungi

1. plural of fungus

fungi (first-person possessive fungiku, second-person possessive fungimu, third-person possessive funginya)

1. fungi

fungi

1. inflection of fungere:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.ɡiː/, [ˈfʊŋɡiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.d͡ʒi/, [ˈfun̠ʲd͡ʒi]

fungī m

1. inflection of fungus:
   1. genitive/locative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

fungī

1. present active infinitive of fungor

• fungi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Latin fungi.

fungi m pl (plural only)

1. fungus