fucus

fucus

See also: Fucus

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuː.kəs/

Noun

fucus (plural fuci or fucuses)

1. Any alga of the genus Fucus.
   • a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):

     Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.

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French

Etymology

From New Latin Fucus, sometimes spelled as phucus..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.kys/

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Noun

fucus m (plural fucus)

1. fucus
2. kelp

Synonyms

• goémon
• varech

Further reading

• “fucus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.kus/, [ˈfuːkʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.kus/, [ˈfuːkus]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed, orchil”).

Noun

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. seaweed; orchil, orchella weed, Roccella tinctoria
2. red dye derived from it; (in general) dyestuff
3. (as cosmetic) rouge
4. (transf.) coloring
5. (poetic) the reddish bee glue, propolis
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.38-40:

     (apēs) in tēctīs certātim tenvia cērā/spīrāmenta linunt fūcōque et flōribus ōrās/explent

     in their homes they (the bees) eagerly smear the passages with wax, fill the entrances with bee glue and nectar

6. pretence, disguise, sham

   fūcum facere

   to play a trick

7. artificial embellishment of literary style

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūcus	fūcī
Genitive	fūcī	fūcōrum
Dative	fūcō	fūcīs
Accusative	fūcum	fūcōs
Ablative	fūcō	fūcīs
Vocative	fūce	fūcī

Derived terms

• fūcō

Descendants

• → Welsh: ffug

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *foikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoy-ko-s, from *bʰey-.[1] Cognate with Old Irish bech, English bee, and possibly Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”).

Noun

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. male bee, drone
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 2.244:

     immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus

   Synonym: cēphēnes m pl (Grecian)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūcus	fūcī
Genitive	fūcī	fūcōrum
Dative	fūcō	fūcīs
Accusative	fūcum	fūcōs
Ablative	fūcō	fūcīs
Vocative	fūce	fūcī

Descendants

• Italian: fuco

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fūcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 245–6

• “fucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fucus 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)
• fucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “fucus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fucus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin