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
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[edit]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
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Etymology
[edit]Possibly adapted into Pre-Latin in the form *θūko- or *θīko-[1] and likely related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz) through a Mediterranean substrate form *tʲuk- or the like.[2]
One possibility is a Semitic loanword. Compare Phoenician 𐤐𐤀𐤂 (pʾg, “half-ripe fig”), Hebrew פַּג (paḡ), פַּגָּה (paggâ, “unripe fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܵܓܵܐ (“unripe fig”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.kus]
Noun
[edit]fīcus m or f (genitive fīcī or fīcūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension
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.
singular | plural | |
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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 |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Unsorted borrowings:
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fīcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 218
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῦκον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1421
Further reading
[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)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | ficus | ficusul | ficuși | ficușii | |
genitive-dative | ficus | ficusului | ficuși | ficușilor | |
vocative | ficusule | ficușilor |
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ficus m (plural ficus)
Further reading
[edit]- “ficus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- English terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:English/aɪkəs
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- en:Botany
- en:Fig trees
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- la:Fruits
- la:Trees
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ikus
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