figo

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

figo (plural figos)

  1. Alternative form of fico
    • 1832, Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving), “The Governor and the Notary”, in Tales of the Alhambra‎[1], revised edition, published 1851:
      A figo for the governor, and a figo for his flag.

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ficus.

Noun[edit]

figo

  1. fig

Esperanto[edit]

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iɡo

Noun[edit]

figo (accusative singular figon, plural figoj, accusative plural figojn)

  1. fig (fruit)

Derived terms[edit]

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese figo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

figo m (plural figos)

  1. fig (tree)
    Synonym: figueira
    • '1299, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 431:
      dedes cadã ãnno a esse moesteyro polos figos que agora son feytos et pola froyta que y fezerdes d'aqui endeante hun capon por dia de san Martino
      you must give each year to this monastery, because of the figs made there and of the fruit you could make henceforth, a capon by the day of Saint Martin
  2. fig (fruit)
    • 1366, M .Lucas Alvarez, M. & P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media, Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 520:
      non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos
      you will not give peaches nor figs

Coordinate terms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “figo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “figo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “figo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “figo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “figo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Esperanto figo, English fig, French figue, German Feige, Italian fico, Russian фи́га (fíga), Spanish higo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

figo (plural figi)

  1. fig (fruit)

Derived terms[edit]

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -iɡo
  • Hyphenation: fì‧go

Adjective[edit]

figo (feminine figa, masculine plural fighi, feminine plural fighe, superlative fighissimo)

  1. (slang, northern Italy) Alternative form of fico; great, cool, bit of alright

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Back-formed from the perfect fīxī, replacing earlier fīvō, from Proto-Italic *feigʷō (with fīxus for fictus after fīxī), from earlier *θeigʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéygʷeti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”).

Cognates include English ditch, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk, German Deich (“dike”) and Teich (“pond”) (all from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”), Sanskrit देहि (dehi-, “wall”) and देह (deha, “body”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fīgō (present infinitive fīgere, perfect active fīxī, supine fīxum); third conjugation

  1. to fasten, fix
    Synonyms: colligō, adalligō, cōnfīgō, cōnserō, dēligō, ligō, illigō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, vinculō, dēstinō
    Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
  2. to transfix, pierce
    Synonyms: trānsfīgō, peragō, cōnfodiō, intrō, trāiciō, percutiō, fodiō, trānsigō
  3. to erect, post, set up
    Synonyms: pono, colloco, loco, sisto, statuo, constituo, impono, defigo
  4. to affirm, assert
    Synonyms: affirmō, firmō, contendō, aiō, arguō
  5. to drive nails

Conjugation[edit]

  • The fourth principal part may also be fīctum.
   Conjugation of fīgō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present fīgō fīgis fīgit fīgimus fīgitis fīgunt
imperfect fīgēbam fīgēbās fīgēbat fīgēbāmus fīgēbātis fīgēbant
future fīgam fīgēs fīget fīgēmus fīgētis fīgent
perfect fīxī fīxistī fīxit fīximus fīxistis fīxērunt,
fīxēre
pluperfect fīxeram fīxerās fīxerat fīxerāmus fīxerātis fīxerant
future perfect fīxerō fīxeris fīxerit fīxerimus fīxeritis fīxerint
passive present fīgor fīgeris,
fīgere 		fīgitur fīgimur fīgiminī fīguntur
imperfect fīgēbar fīgēbāris,
fīgēbāre 		fīgēbātur fīgēbāmur fīgēbāminī fīgēbantur
future fīgar fīgēris,
fīgēre 		fīgētur fīgēmur fīgēminī fīgentur
perfect fīxus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect fīxus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect fīxus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present fīgam fīgās fīgat fīgāmus fīgātis fīgant
imperfect fīgerem fīgerēs fīgeret fīgerēmus fīgerētis fīgerent
perfect fīxerim fīxerīs fīxerit fīxerīmus fīxerītis fīxerint
pluperfect fīxissem fīxissēs fīxisset fīxissēmus fīxissētis fīxissent
passive present fīgar fīgāris,
fīgāre 		fīgātur fīgāmur fīgāminī fīgantur
imperfect fīgerer fīgerēris,
fīgerēre 		fīgerētur fīgerēmur fīgerēminī fīgerentur
perfect fīxus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect fīxus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — fīge — — fīgite —
future — fīgitō fīgitō — fīgitōte fīguntō
passive present — fīgere — — fīgiminī —
future — fīgitor fīgitor — — fīguntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives fīgere fīxisse fīxūrum esse fīgī fīxum esse fīxum īrī
participles fīgēns — fīxūrus — fīxus fīgendus,
fīgundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
fīgendī fīgendō fīgendum fīgendō fīxum fīxū

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Aromanian: hig, higu, nhig, nhigu
  • Italian: figgere
  • Vulgar Latin:

References[edit]

  • “figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • figo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • “figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • figo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
  • figo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡɔ/
  • Rhymes: -iɡɔ
  • Syllabification: fi‧go

Noun[edit]

figo f

  1. vocative singular of figa

Portuguese[edit]

figos

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese figo, from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Noun[edit]

figo m (plural figos)

  1. fig (fruit)

Derived terms[edit]

Swahili[edit]

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sw

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *mpígò.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

figo (ma class, plural mafigo)

  1. kidney
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