ficatum

Latin

Etymology

From fīcus (“fig”), short for iecur fīcātum, "fig-stuffed liver".

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /fiːˈkaː.tum/, [fiːˈkaː.tũ]

Noun

fīcātum n (genitive fīcātī); second declension

liver, from an animal fattened on figs

Inflection

Second declension.

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
Asturian: fégadu
Catalan: fetge
Corsican: fecatu, fegatu
Dalmatian: fecuat
French: foie
Friulian: fiât
Galician: fígado
Istro-Romanian: ficåt
Italian: fegato

Norman: faie
Neapolitan: fécato
Occitan: fetge, hitge
Portuguese: fígado
Romanian: ficat
Romansch: fio
Sardinian: fícadu, fícatu, ícatu
Sicilian: fìcatu
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, 1883–1887)
ficatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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