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ficus

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See also: Ficus and -ficus

English

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Ficus elastica

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fīcus (fig).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ficus (plural ficuses)

  1. (botany) Any plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fīcus (fig).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

  1. any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

Latin

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fīcī (figs)

Etymology

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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

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Noun

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fīcus m or f (genitive fīcī or fīcūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

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

Declension

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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
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

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Descendants

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  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: ficu, figu
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: figo
    • Asturian: figu
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: figo
    • Spanish: higo (see there for further descendants)
  • Vulgar Latin: *fīca
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Old Occitan: figa
        • Occitan: figa
        • Old French: figue (see there for further descendants)
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Norse: fíkja
  • Borrowings:

Unsorted borrowings:

References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

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  • 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ficus.

Noun

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ficus m (plural ficuși)

  1. ficus

Declension

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Declension of ficus
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ficus ficusul ficuși ficușii
genitive-dative ficus ficusului ficuși ficușilor
vocative ficusule ficușilor

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfikus/ [ˈfi.kus]
  • Rhymes: -ikus
  • Syllabification: fi‧cus

Noun

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ficus m (plural ficus)

  1. ficus

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