ficatum

Latin

Etymology

From fīcus (“fig”), short for iecur fīcātum, "fig-stuffed liver".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈkaː.tum/, [fiːˈkäːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈka.tum/, [fiˈkäːt̪um]

Noun

fīcātum n (genitive fīcātī); second declension

1. liver, from an animal fattened on figs

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīcātum	fīcāta
Genitive	fīcātī	fīcātōrum
Dative	fīcātō	fīcātīs
Accusative	fīcātum	fīcāta
Ablative	fīcātō	fīcātīs
Vocative	fīcātum	fīcāta

Descendants

• Aragonese: figado
• Aromanian: hicat
• Asturian: fégadu
• Catalan: fetge
• Corsican: fecatu, fegatu
• Dalmatian: fecuat
• French: foie
• Friulian: fiât
• Galician: fígado
• Istro-Romanian: ficåt
• Italian: fegato

• Norman: faie
• Neapolitan: fécato
• Occitan: fetge, hitge
• Portuguese: fígado
• Romanian: ficat
• Romansch: fio
• Sardinian: fícadu, fícatu, ícatu
• Sicilian: fìcatu
• Spanish: hígado
• Venetian: figà
• Walloon: foete

References

• “ficatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ficatum 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)
• ficatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.