ficus

See also: Ficus and -ficus

English

Ficus elastica

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪkəs/
• Rhymes: -aɪkəs

Noun

ficus (plural ficuses)

1. (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

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

Noun

ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

1. any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

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Latin

fīcī (figs)

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz), most likely via 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, f (plural fīcī, second declension, or fīcūs, fourth declension)

1. fig tree
2. fig (fruit)
3. hemorrhoids

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

Derived terms

• fīcārius
• fīcātum
• fīcedula

• fīcētum
• fīcōsus
• fīculea

Descendants

• Albanian: fiq, fik
• Aromanian: hic, hicã
• Asturian: figu
• Basque: piku
• Catalan: figa
• Dalmatian: faica
• English: ficus, fig
• French: figue
• Friulian: fîc

• German: Feige
• Italian: fico, fica
• Occitan: figa
• Old French: figue, fie
• Old Portuguese: figo
  • Galician: figo
  • Portuguese: figo
• Polish: figa
• Russian: фи́кус (fíkus) (fíkus), фи́га (fíga) (fíga)

• Sardinian: ficu, figu
• Sicilian: ficu
• Slovene: figa
• Spanish: higo
  • Classical Nahuatl: hīcox
• Translingual: Ficus
• Venetian: figo, figa

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “ficus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “ficus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• ficus in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press