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, of species Ficus elastica.

• ficus tussock moth

• Sufic

Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.kʏs/

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• Rhymes: -ikʏs

ficus m (plural ficussen, diminutive ficusje n)

1. A fig; any plant belonging to the genus Ficus.

   Hyponyms: vijgenboom, wilde vijgenboom

• ficus on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Possibly adapted into Pre-Latin in the form *θūko- or *θīko-^[1] and likely related to Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʻuz) through a Mediterranean substrate form *tʲuk- or the like.^[2]

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.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.kus]

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfikus/ [ˈfi.kus]
• Rhymes: -ikus
• Syllabification: fi‧cus

ficus m (plural ficus)

1. ficus

• “ficus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025