ficus

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

Derived terms

• ficus tussock moth

Translations

plant of the genus Ficus

Chinese: Mandarin: 榕屬／榕属 (zh) (róngshǔ), 榕属 (zh) (róngshǔ) Czech: fíkus m Finnish: fiikus (fi) German: Fikus m Hindi: अंजीर (hi) m (añjīr) Icelandic: fíkjutré n Polish: figa (pl) f, figowiec (pl) m, fikus (pl) m 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 (tʿuz) via a Mediterranean substrate form *θuiko- or the like.

Possibly a Semitic loanword. Compare Phoenician 𐤐𐤀𐤂‎ (pʾg, “half-ripe fig”), Hebrew פַּג‎ (paḡ), פַּגָּה‎‎ (paggâ, “unripe fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܵܓܵܐ‎ (“unripe fig”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.kus/, [ˈfiːkʊs̠]
• (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

• caprifīcus
• fīcārius
• fīcātum
• fīcedula
• fīcētum
• fīcōsus
• fīculea

Descendants

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

Unsorted borrowings

• → Breton: fiez, figez
• → Faroese: fika
• → Irish: fige
• → Lingala: figi
• → Lithuanian: figa
• → Manx: fig
• → Quechua: igu
• → Romanian: fig (archaic)
• → Slovene: figa
• → Tongan: fiki
• → Ukrainian: фіга (fiha)
• → West Frisian: fiich

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ficus.

Noun

ficus m (plural ficuși)

1. ficus

Declension

Declension of ficus

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ficus	ficusul	(niște) ficuși	ficușii
genitive/dative	(unui) ficus	ficusului	(unor) ficuși	ficușilor
vocative	ficusule		ficușilor

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Spanish

Noun

ficus m (plural ficus)

1. ficus

Further reading

• “ficus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014