ficatum
Latin
Etymology
From fīcus (“fig”), short for iecur fīcātum, "fig-stuffed liver".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fiːˈkaː.tum/, [fiːˈkäːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fiˈka.tum/, [fiˈkäːt̪um]
Noun
fīcātum n (genitive fīcātī); second declension
- liver, from an animal fattened on figs; foie gras
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fīcātum | fīcāta |
| Genitive | fīcātī | fīcātōrum |
| Dative | fīcātō | fīcātīs |
| Accusative | fīcātum | fīcāta |
| Ablative | fīcātō | fīcātīs |
| Vocative | fīcātum | fīcāta |
Descendants
- Aragonese: figado
- Aromanian: hicat, hiãcat
- Asturian: fégadu
- Catalan: fetge
- Corsican: fecatu, fegatu
- Dalmatian: fecuat
- Emilian: féddegh
- Old French: feie, foie, firie
- French: foie
- Friulian: fiât
- Galician: fígado
- Istro-Romanian: ficåt
- Italian: fegato
- Ligurian: figæto
- Lombard: fídeg, figad
- Norman: faie
- Neapolitan: fécato
- Occitan: fetge, hitge
- Piedmontese: fìdich
- Portuguese: fígado
- Romanian: ficat
- Romansch: fio
- Sardinian: fícadu, fícatu, ícatu
- Sicilian: fìcatu
- Old Spanish: fígado
- Spanish: hígado
- Venetian: figà
- Walloon: foete
References
- “ficatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ficatum 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)
- ficatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette