ficus

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪkəs/
• Rhymes: -aɪkəs

ficus (plural ficuses)

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

• ficus tussock moth

• Sufic

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

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ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

1. any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

Potentially related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz) via a Mediterranean substrate form *θuiko- or the like.^[1]

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.kus/, [ˈfiːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.kus/, [ˈfiːkus]

fīcus m or f (variously declined, genitive fīcī or fīcūs); second declension, fourth declension

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

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

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

Unsorted borrowings

• “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

Borrowed from Latin ficus.

ficus m (plural ficuși)

1. ficus

ficus m (plural ficus)

1. ficus

• “ficus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28