ficus
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaɪkəs/
- Rhymes: -aɪkəs
Noun
ficus (plural ficuses)
- (botany) A plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant.
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Latin
Etymology
Potentially related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz) via a Mediterranean substrate form *thuiko- or the like. Possibly Semitic: see Phoenician 𐤐𐤀𐤂 (pʾg, “half-ripe fig”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.kus/, [ˈfiː.kʊs]
Noun
fīcus m or f (plural fīcī, second declension, or fīcūs, fourth declension)
- fig tree
- fig (fruit)
- hemorrhoids
Inflection
Even among Classical grammarians, the gender (masculine or feminine) and declension (second or fourth) were debated.
Second declension.
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Fourth declension.
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Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: hic, hicu
- Italian: fico
- → Hungarian: füge
- Ligurian: fîgo
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: figo
- Old French: fie
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: figu
- Old Portuguese: figo
- Old Spanish: figo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: ficu, figu
- Sicilian: ficu
- Venetian: figo
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fīca
- → Albanian: fik
- → Basque: piku
- → English: ficus
References
- ficus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ficus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ficus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ficus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- ficus in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
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