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See also: ficc and fîc

English

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Etymology

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    Clipping of fanfic, itself a clipping of fan fiction.

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    fic (countable and uncountable, plural fics)

    1. (slang, countable) A fictional story set within a preexisting fandom; a fanfic.

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    Albanian

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    Etymology

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    From an unattested *fij, from Proto-Albanian *spija, cognate with Sanskrit स्फायते (spháyate, to become fat), Proto-Slavic *spěti (to ripen).[1]

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    fic (aorist fica, participle ficur)

    1. to make soft
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    1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fic”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 96

    Catalan

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    Inherited from Latin fīcus (fig).

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    fic m (plural fics)

    1. wart
      Synonym: berruga
    2. Alpine buckthorn
      Synonym: púdol
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    Middle English

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    fic

    1. Alternative form of fyke

    Old English

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    From Proto-West Germanic *fīk, *fīgā.

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    fīc m

    1. a fig or fig tree
    2. piles, hemorrhoids

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    • Middle English: fike, fyke

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    fic f (plural fics)

    1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of fanfic.