fig

English Online Dictionary. What means fig‎? What does fig mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

fig (plural figs)

2. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. [from 12th c.]
3. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. [from 14th c.]
4. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. [from 15th c.]
5. A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata) [from 16th c.]
6. (Newfoundland, dated) A raisin (dried grape). [from 18th c.]
   • figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
7. A small piece of tobacco. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: fik
• → Chuukese: fik
• → Maori: piki

Translations

Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)

1. (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
2. (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
3. (soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. [mid-1800s to mid-1900s]

Further reading

• fig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fig tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ficus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Variation of fike.

Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)

1. (intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

Derived terms

• figgle

Etymology 3

Noun

fig (plural figs)

1. Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).
2. (colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): fig.

Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)

1. (colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.

Related terms

• figgery
• go fig
• in full fig

Etymology 4

See figging.

Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)

1. (transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.

   Synonym: ginger

Noun

fig (plural figs)

1. The piece of ginger root used in figging.

References

Anagrams

• FGI, GFI, GIF, IGF, gif

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French figue (“fig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiɡ/

Noun

fig

1. banana

   Synonym: bannann

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: fig
• Homophone: fik

Noun

fig f

1. genitive plural of figa

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ficus.

Noun

fig m (plural figi)

1. (obsolete) fig tree

Declension

References

• fig in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Volapük

Noun

fig (nominative plural figs)

1. fig

Declension