ficus

See also: Ficus and -ficus

English

Ficus elastica

Etymology

Borrowed 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)
• Hindi: अंजीर (hi) m (añjīr)
• Icelandic: fíkjutré n
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• Russian: фи́кус (ru) m (fíkus)
• Swedish: fikus (sv) c
• Urdu: انجیر‎ m (añjīr)

Anagrams

• Sufic

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

1. any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

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Latin

fīcī (figs)

Etymology

Potentially related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz) via a Mediterranean substrate form *θuiko- or the like. Possibly Semitic: see Phoenician 𐤐𐤀𐤂 (pʾg, “half-ripe fig”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.kus/, [ˈfiːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.kus/, [ˈfiːkus]

Noun

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

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• fīcārius
• fīcātum
• fīcedula

• fīcētum
• fīcōsus
• fīculea

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: hic, hicu
• Gallo-Italic
  • Ligurian: fîgo
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: fico
  • Sicilian: ficu
• Old French: fie
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: fîc
  • Romansch: fig
• Sardinian: ficu, figu
• Venetian: figo
• West Iberian
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: figo
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: figu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: figo
    • Galician: figo
    • Portuguese: figo
  • Old Spanish: figo
    • Spanish: higo
      • → Classical Nahuatl: hīcox, īcox (alternative spelling)
• → Albanian: fik
• → Basque: piku
• → English: ficus
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fīca
  • Eastern Romance
    • Aromanian: hicã
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Piedmontese: fighé
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Corsican: fica
    • Dalmatian: faica, faika
    • Italian: fica
  • Old Occitan: figa
    • Occitan: figa
    • → Old French: figue (see there for further descendants)
  • Venetian: figa
  • West Iberian
    • Navarro-Aragonese:
      • Aragonese: figa
  • → Old Dutch: fīga
    • Middle Dutch: vige
      • Dutch: vijg
        • Afrikaans: vy
        • Negerhollands: vigie (from the diminutive)
  • → Old English: fīc (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Norse: fíkja
    • Icelandic: fíkja
  • → Old Saxon:
    • Middle Low German: vige
      • German Low German: Fieg
      • → Latvian: vīģe
      • ⇒ Middle Low German: vigen (plural)
        • → Danish: figen
        • → Norwegian: fiken
        • → Swedish: fikon

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
• 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