sycamore

English

Etymology

Circa 1350, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sicamor, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sȳcomorus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkəmɔɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkəmɔː/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: syc‧a‧more

Noun

sycamore (countable and uncountable, plural sycamores)

1. (US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).
2. (British) A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
3. A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig and found in Egypt and Syria; also called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry; the Biblical sycomore.

Synonyms

• planetree

Coordinate terms

• buttonwood
• sycomore

Translations

Platanus

• Arabic: شجر جميز (shakhar jamīz)
• Aromanian: paltin m
• Azerbaijani: çinar (az)
• Catalan: plàtan (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎪᏧᏁᎦ (kotsunega)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懸鈴木／悬铃木 (zh), 悬铃木 (zh) (xuánlíngmù), 美桐 (měitóng)

• Czech: platan (cs) m
• Estonian: plataanid, plaatanid (archaic)
• Finnish: plataani (fi) (Platanus); amerikanplataani, lännenplataani (Platanus occidentalis)
• French: platane (fr) m
• Galician: plátano (gl)
• German: Platane (de) f
• Greek: πλάτανος (el) m (plátanos)

  Ancient: πλάτανος m (plátanos)

• Hebrew: דולב m (dolev)
• Italian: platano (it) m
• Japanese: スズカケノキ (suzukake no ki), プラタナス (puratanasu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:
• Latin: platanus m
• Malagasy: mamankona (mg)
• Malayalam: ചിനാർ (cināṟ)
• Maori: hikamora, hikamoa
• Persian: چنار (fa) (čenâr)
• Polish: platan (pl) m
• Portuguese: plátano (pt) m
• Romanian: platan (ro) m
• Russian: плата́н (ru) m (platán), чинар (ru) m (činar)
• Serbo-Croatian: platan (sh) m
• Spanish: plátano (es) m (Spain)
• Swahili: mwela
• Tagalog: sikomoro
• Tatar: чинар (çinar)
• Turkish: çınar (tr)
• Ukrainian: платан m (platan)

sycamore maple — see sycamore maple

Ficus sycomorus

• Armenian: ժանտաթզենի (hy) (žantatʻzeni)
• Estonian: plataan, plaatan (archaic)
• Finnish: sykomori, metsäviikunapuu
• French: sycomore (fr) m, figuier sycomore (fr) m
• Galician: sicómoro (gl) m
• German: Maulbeer-Feige f
• Greek:

  Ancient: συκόμορος f (sukómoros)

• Japanese: エジプトイチジク (ejiputoichijiku), イチジクグワ (ichijikuguwa)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kikuyu: mũkũyũ class 3
• Maori: hikamora
• Portuguese: sicómoro m (Portugal), sicômoro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: sicomor (ro) m
• Swahili: mkuyu (sw)
• Tagalog: sikomoro
• Welsh: sycamorwydden f

Further reading

• “sycamore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “sycamore”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “sycamore”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.