Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. · A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. · The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. · A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico.
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"A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.",
"The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.",
"A Lady Finger banana, also known as the \"fig banana\", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)"
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