ficus

See also: Ficus and -ficus

English

Ficus elastica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪkəs/
Rhymes: -aɪkəs

Noun

ficus (plural ficuses)

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

Translations

plant of the genus Ficus

Czech: fíkus m
Finnish: fiikus (fi)
Icelandic: fíkjutré n

Russian: фи́кус (ru) m (fíkus)
Swedish: fikus (sv) c

Anagrams

Sufic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

Latin

fīcī (figs)

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)

Inflection

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

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīcus	fīcī
Genitive	fīcī	fīcōrum
Dative	fīcō	fīcīs
Accusative	fīcum	fīcōs
Ablative	fīcō	fīcīs
Vocative	fīce	fīcī

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīcus	fīcūs
Genitive	fīcūs	fīcuum
Dative	fīcuī	fīcibus
Accusative	fīcum	fīcūs
Ablative	fīcū	fīcibus
Vocative	fīcus	fīcūs

Derived terms

fīcārius
fīcātum
fīcedula

fīcētum
fīcōsus
fīculea

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
- Galician: figo
- Portuguese: figo
Old Spanish: figo
- Spanish: higo
  - → Classical Nahuatl: hīcox, īcox
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: fîc
- Romansch: fig
Sardinian: ficu, figu
Sicilian: ficu
Venetian: figo
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fīca
- Corsican: fica
- Dalmatian: faica, faika
- Eastern Romance:
  - Aromanian: hicã
- Italian: fica
- Navarro-Aragonese:
  - Aragonese: figa
- Old Occitan: figa
  - Catalan: figa
  - Occitan: figa
  - → Old French: figue
    - Middle French: fige, figue
      - French: figue
        → Luxembourgish: Fig
      - Walloon: fike
    - → Middle English: fige, fygge
      - English: fig
        Tok Pisin: fik
        → Chuukese: fik
        → Maori: piki
      - Scots: feg
    - → Old High German: fīga
      - Middle High German: vīge
        German: Feige
        Yiddish: פײַג‎ (fayg)
- Piedmontese: fighé
- Venetian: figa
- → Old Dutch: fīga
  - Middle Dutch: vige
    - Dutch: vijg
      - Afrikaans: vy
- → Old English: fīc
  - Middle English: fike, fyke
    - English: fike
- → Old Norse: fíkja
  - Icelandic: fíkja
- → Old Saxon:
  - Middle Low German: vige
    - Low German: Fieg
    - → Latvian: vīģe
    - → Danish: figen
    - → Norwegian: fiken
    - → Swedish: fikon
- → Polish: figa
  - → Russian: фига (figa)
→ 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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