Fig Definition
- Ficus carica
- common fig tree
- common fig
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- figure
- completely dressed or outfitted, esp. in a showy manner
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Fig
- in full fig
Origin of Fig
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From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), from Anglo-Norman figue, from Old Provençal figa, from Vulgar Latin fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician [script?] (pagh, “ripe fig”) (compare Classical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic - (faġġ), [script?] (fiġġ)).
From Wiktionary
Perhaps from fig to trot out a horse in lively condition, dress up variant of feague to make a horse lively probably from Dutch vegen to brush from Middle Dutch vēghen
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian [script?] (tīʾu, “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sỹkon) (Boeotian τῦκον (tỹkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʿuz); whence English sycophant.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French figue from Old Provençal figa from Vulgar Latin fīca from Latin fīcus
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Variation of fike.
From Wiktionary
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