From Old Galician-Portuguesefigo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latinfīcus(“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈfiɣʊ]
Noun
figom (pluralfigos)
fig (tree)
Synonym:figueira
fig (fruit)
Coordinate terms
breva
Derived terms
figo chumbo
figo lampo
figo santiaguiño
figo vendimiño
Related terms
cabrafigo
figueira
papafigo
References
“figo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“figo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“figo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“figo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“figo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperantofigo, Englishfig, Frenchfigue, GermanFeige, Italianfico, Russianфи́га(fíga), Spanishhigo.
(slang, northern Italy)Alternative form of fico; great, cool, bit of alright
Latin
Etymology
Back-formed from the perfect fīxī, replacing earlier fīvō, from Proto-Italic*feigʷō (with fīxus for fictus after fīxī), from earlier *θeigʷō, from Proto-Indo-European*dʰéygʷeti, from Proto-Indo-European*dʰeygʷ-(“to stick, set up”).
Cognates include Englishditch, West Frisiandyk(“dam”), Dutchdijk, GermanDeich(“dike”) and Teich(“pond”) (all from Proto-Germanic*dīkaz), Lithuaniandiegti(“to prick; plant”), dýgsti(“to geminate, grow”), Sanskritदेहि(dehi-, “wall”) and देह(deha, “body”).
“figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
figo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
“figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
figo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
figo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡɔ/
Rhymes: -iɡɔ
Syllabification: fi‧go
Noun
figof
vocative singular of figa
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguesefigo, from Latinfīcus(“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).