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

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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

Latin

fīcī (figs)

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz), most likely via Mediterranean substrate form *thuiko- or the like. Possibly Semitic - see Phoenician 𐤐𐤀𐤂‎ (pʾg, “half-ripe fig”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fīcus m, f (plural fīcī, second declension, or fīcūs, fourth declension)

  1. fig tree
  2. fig (fruit)
  3. hemorrhoids

Inflection

Even among Classical grammarians, the gender (masculine or feminine) and declension (second or fourth) were debated.

Second declension.
Case Singular Plural
nominative fīcus fīcī
genitive fīcī fīcōrum
dative fīcō fīcīs
accusative fīcum fīcōs
ablative fīcō fīcīs
vocative fīce fīcī
 Fourth declension.
Case Singular Plural
nominative fīcus fīcūs
genitive fīcūs fīcuum
dative fīcuī fīcibus
accusative fīcum fīcūs
ablative fīcū fīcibus
vocative fīcus fīcūs

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Descendants

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, 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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