See also: Ficus and -ficus

English edit

 
Ficus elastica

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (fig).

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Noun edit

ficus (plural ficuses)

  1. (botany) Any plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (fig).

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  • (file)

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ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

  1. any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

Latin edit

 
fīcī (figs)

Etymology edit

Potentially related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz) via a Mediterranean substrate form *θuiko- or the like.

Possibly a Semitic loanword. Compare Phoenician 𐤐𐤀𐤂 (pʾg, half-ripe fig), Hebrew פַּג (paḡ), פַּגָּה (paggâ, unripe fig), Classical Syriac ܦܵܓܵܐ (unripe fig).

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Noun edit

fīcus m or f (variously declined, genitive fīcī or fīcūs); second declension, fourth declension

  1. fig tree
  2. fig (fruit)
  3. hemorrhoids

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Even among Classical grammarians, the gender (masculine or feminine) and declension (second or fourth) were debated. Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fīcus fīcī
fīcūs
Genitive fīcī
fīcūs
fīcōrum
fīcuum
Dative fīcō
fīcuī
fīcīs
fīcibus
Accusative fīcum fīcōs
fīcūs
Ablative fīcō
fīcū
fīcīs
fīcibus
Vocative fīce
fīcus
fīcī
fīcūs

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Descendants edit

  • Aromanian: hic, hicu
  • Catalan: fic
  • Italo-Dalmatian
  • Ligurian: fîgo
  • Old French: fie
  • Rhaeto-Romance
  • Sardinian: ficu, figu
  • Venetian: figo
  • West Iberian
    • Aragonese: figo
    • Asturian: figu
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: figo
    • Spanish: higo (see there for further descendants)
  • Albanian: fik
  • Basque: piku
  • English: ficus
  • Vulgar Latin: *fīca
Unsorted borrowings

References edit

  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ficus.

Noun edit

ficus m (plural ficuși)

  1. ficus

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ficus m (plural ficus)

  1. ficus

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