fico
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Etymology edit
From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.
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fico (plural ficoes)
- (archaic) a fig; an insignificant trifle
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- a fico for the phrase.
- (archaic) a sign of contempt made with the fingers
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- “fico”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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fico
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fico (feminine fica, masculine plural fichi, feminine plural fiche, superlative fichissimo)
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fico m (plural fichi, diminutive fichìno, augmentative ficóne, pejorative ficàccio, derogatory ficùccio)
- fig (fresh fruit and tree)
- (slang) cool guy, bit of alright
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- The slang term becomes figo in Northern Italy.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.koː/, [ˈfiːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ko/, [ˈfiːko]
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fīcō
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- fico 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)
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fico
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fico
- (transitive) to look at
- (transitive) to keep an eye on
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Conjugation of fico (action verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tefico | mefico | afico | |
2nd person | nefico | fefico | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ifico | defico | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nifico, fico | fifico, fico |
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics