fucus

From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuː.kəs/

fucus (plural fuci or fucuses)

1. Any alga of the genus Fucus.

From New Latin Fucus, sometimes spelled as phucus.

• IPA^(key): /fy.kys/

fucus m (plural fucus)

1. fucus
2. kelp

• goémon
• varech

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.kus/, [ˈfuː.kʊs]

From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed, orchil”).

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. orchil, seaweed
2. (as cosmetic) rouge
3. (for woolen goods) red dye
4. pretence, disguise, sham
5. (poetic) bee glue, propolis
   • Vergil, Georgics, 4.37-41 :

     ...neque illae/nequiquam in tectis certatim tenuia cera/spiramenta linunt fucoque et floribus oras/explent collectumque haec ipsa ad munera gluten/et visco et Phrygiae servant pice lentius Idae.

     ...nor for them/for naught the roofs' moilingly with thin wax/the spiracles do they line with rouge and dust by flowers' mouths'/expelled, garnered for the office of cement/than bird-lime which holds more still, or than the pitch from Phrygian Ida's pines.

Second declension.

• fūcō

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰoy-ko-, from *bʰey-.[1] Cognate with Old Irish bech, English bee, and possibly Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”).

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. male bee, drone
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 2.244:

     immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus

Second declension.

• (male bee, drone): cēphēnes m pl (Grecian)

• Italian: fuco

• fucus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fucus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fucus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fucus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fucus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin