# ficus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaɪkəs/
* Rhymes: -aɪkəs

### Noun

ficus (plural ficuses)
* (botany) Any plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant.

#### Derived terms

* ficus tussock moth

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Sufic

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)
* any plant belonging to the genus Ficus

## Latin
### Etymology

Possibly adapted into Pre-Latin in the form *θūko- or *θīko- and likely related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz) through a Mediterranean substrate form *tʲuk- or the like.
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”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

fīcus m or f (genitive fīcī or fīcūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension
* fig tree
* fig (fruit)
* hemorrhoids

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* caprifīcus
* fīcārius
* fīcātum
* fīcedula
* fīcētum
* fīcōsus
* fīculea

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: ficu, figu
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: hic, hicu
** Megleno-Romanian: ic
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Italian: fico, figo (northern)
** Sicilian: ficu
** Venetan: figo
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: fîc
** Romansch: fig
* Gallo-Italic:
** Ligurian: fîgo
** Piedmontese: fi
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: fic
** Old French: fie
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: figo
** Asturian: figu
** Old Galician-Portuguese: figo
*** Galician: figo
*** Portuguese: figo
** Spanish: higo (see there for further descendants)
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fīca
** Balkano-Romance:
*** Aromanian: hicã
*** Megleno-Romanian: ică
** Italo-Dalmatian:
*** Corsican: fica
*** Dalmatian: faica, faika
*** Italian: fica, figa (northern)
*** Venetan: figa
**** ⇒ Hungarian: füge
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Piedmontese: fighé
** Gallo-Romance:
*** Old Occitan: figa
**** Occitan: figa
**** → Old French: figue (see there for further descendants)
** Ibero-Romance:
*** Aragonese: figa
** → Old Norse: fíkja
*** Icelandic: fíkja
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: fik
** → Basque: piku
** → Dutch: ficus
** → English: ficus
** → Romanian: ficus
** → Spanish: ficus
Unsorted borrowings:
* → Breton: fiez, figez
* → Faroese: fika
* → Irish: fige
* → Lingala: figi
* → Lithuanian: figa
* → Manx: fig
* → Quechua: igu
* → Romanian: fig (archaic)
* → Slovene: figa
* → Tongan: fiki
* → Ukrainian: фіга (fiha)
* → West Frisian: fiich

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fīcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 218
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῦκον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1421

### Further reading

* “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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ficus.

### Noun

ficus m (plural ficuși)
* ficus

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfikus/ [ˈfi.kus]
* Rhymes: -ikus
* Syllabification: fi‧cus

### Noun

ficus m (plural ficus)
* ficus

### Further reading

* “ficus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10