figo

See also: fîgo

English

Noun

figo (plural figos)

Alternative form of fico
- 1832, Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving), “The Governor and the Notary”, in Tales of the Alhambra‎, revised edition, published 1851:
  A figo for the governor, and a figo for his flag.

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ficus.

Noun

figo

fig

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -iɡo

Noun

figo (accusative singular figon, plural figoj, accusative plural figojn)

fig (fruit)

Derived terms

figarbo, figujo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese figo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfiɣʊ]

Noun

figo m (plural figos)

fig (tree)
- 1299, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 431:
  dedes cadã ãnno a esse moesteyro polos 'figos que agora son feytos et pola froyta que y fezerdes d'aqui endeante hun capon por dia de san Martino
  you must give each year to this monastery, because of the figs made there and of the fruit you could make henceforth, a capon by the day of Saint Martin
Synonym: figueira
fig (fruit)
- 1366, M .Lucas Alvarez, M. & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 520:
  non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos
  you will not give peaches nor figs

Coordinate terms

breva

Derived terms

figo chumbo
figo lampo
figo santiaguiño
figo vendimiño

Related terms

cabrafigo
figueira
papafigo

References

“figo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“figo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“figo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“figo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“figo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto figo, English fig, French figue, German Feige, Italian fico, Russian фи́га (fíga), Spanish higo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡo/

Noun

figo (plural figi)

fig (fruit)

Derived terms

figiereyo (“fig garden”)
figiero (“fig (tree)”)

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/
Rhymes: -iɡo
Hyphenation: fì‧go

Adjective

figo (feminine figa, masculine plural fighi, feminine plural fighe, superlative fighissimo)

(slang, northern Italy) Alternative form of fico; great, cool, bit of alright

Latin

Etymology

Back-formed from the perfect fīxī, replacing earlier fīvō, from Proto-Italic *feigʷō (with fīxus for fictus after fīxī), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”). Cognates include English ditch, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk, German Deich (“dike”) and Teich (“pond”) (all from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”), Sanskrit देहि (dehi-, “wall”) and देह (deha, “body”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.ɡoː/, [ˈfiːɡoː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/, [ˈfiːɡo]

Verb

fīgō (present infinitive fīgere, perfect active fīxī, supine fīxum); third conjugation

I fasten, fix
Synonyms: colligō, adalligō, cōnfīgō, cōnserō, dēligō, ligō, illigō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, vinculō, dēstinō
Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
I transfix, pierce
Synonyms: trānsfīgō, peragō, cōnfodiō, intrō, trāiciō, percutiō, fodiō, trānsigō
I erect, post, set up
Synonyms: pono, colloco, loco, sisto, statuo, constituo, impono, defigo
I affirm, assert
Synonyms: affirmō, firmō, contendō, aiō, arguō
I drive nails

Conjugation

The fourth principal part may also be fīctum.

Conjugation of fīgō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fīgō	fīgis	fīgit	fīgimus	fīgitis	fīgunt
	imperfect	fīgēbam	fīgēbās	fīgēbat	fīgēbāmus	fīgēbātis	fīgēbant
	future	fīgam	fīgēs	fīget	fīgēmus	fīgētis	fīgent
	perfect	fīxī	fīxistī	fīxit	fīximus	fīxistis	fīxērunt, fīxēre
	pluperfect	fīxeram	fīxerās	fīxerat	fīxerāmus	fīxerātis	fīxerant
	future perfect	fīxerō	fīxeris	fīxerit	fīxerimus	fīxeritis	fīxerint
passive	present	fīgor	fīgeris, fīgere	fīgitur	fīgimur	fīgiminī	fīguntur
	imperfect	fīgēbar	fīgēbāris, fīgēbāre	fīgēbātur	fīgēbāmur	fīgēbāminī	fīgēbantur
	future	fīgar	fīgēris, fīgēre	fīgētur	fīgēmur	fīgēminī	fīgentur
	perfect	fīxus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	fīxus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	fīxus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
subjunctive		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fīgam	fīgās	fīgat	fīgāmus	fīgātis	fīgant
	imperfect	fīgerem	fīgerēs	fīgeret	fīgerēmus	fīgerētis	fīgerent
	perfect	fīxerim	fīxerīs	fīxerit	fīxerīmus	fīxerītis	fīxerint
	pluperfect	fīxissem	fīxissēs	fīxisset	fīxissēmus	fīxissētis	fīxissent
passive	present	fīgar	fīgāris, fīgāre	fīgātur	fīgāmur	fīgāminī	fīgantur
	imperfect	fīgerer	fīgerēris, fīgerēre	fīgerētur	fīgerēmur	fīgerēminī	fīgerentur
	perfect	fīxus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	fīxus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	fīge	—	—	fīgite	—
active	future	—	fīgitō	fīgitō	—	fīgitōte	fīguntō
passive	present	—	fīgere	—	—	fīgiminī	—
passive	future	—	fīgitor	fīgitor	—	—	fīguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fīgere	fīxisse	fīxūrum esse	fīgī	fīxum esse	fīxum īrī
participles		fīgēns	—	fīxūrus	—	fīxus	fīgendus, fīgundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fīgendī	fīgendō	fīgendum	fīgendō	fīxum	fīxū

Derived terms

affīgō
cōnfīgō
crucifīgō
dēfīgō
fībula
*fīgicō
fīxūra
fīxus
īnfīgō
offīgō
perfīgō
praefīgō
refīgō
suffīgō
trānsfīgō

Descendants

Aromanian: hig, hidziri
Italian: figgere
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fixō
- Italian: fissare
- Sicilian: fissari
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fictō
- Galician: fitar
- Portuguese: fitar

References

“figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
figo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
“figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
figo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
figo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡɔ/
Rhymes: -iɡɔ
Syllabification: fi‧go

Noun

figo f

vocative singular of figa

Portuguese

figos

Etymology

From Old Portuguese figo, from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/ [ˈfi.ɣu]

Homophone: Figo
Hyphenation: fi‧go

Noun

figo m (plural figos)

fig (fruit)

Derived terms

figueira

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mpígò.

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

figo (ma class, plural mafigo)

kidney