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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
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]
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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Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: hic, hicu
- Catalan: fic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Ligurian: fîgo
- Old French: fie
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: ficu, figu
- Venetian: figo
- West Iberian
- → 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]
Noun[edit]
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
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