ficus
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ficus (plural ficuses)
- (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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Noun edit
ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)
- any plant belonging to the genus Ficus
Latin edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.kus/, [ˈfiːkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.kus/, [ˈfiːkus]
Noun edit
fīcus m or f (variously declined, genitive fīcī or fīcūs); second declension, fourth declension
- fig tree
- fig (fruit)
- hemorrhoids
Declension edit
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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- 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
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ficus m (plural ficuși)
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Spanish edit
Noun edit
ficus m (plural ficus)
Further reading edit
- “ficus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014