figo
English
Noun
figo (plural figos)
- Alternative form of fico
- 1832, Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving), “The Governor and the Notary”, in Tales of the Alhambra, revised edition, published 1851:
- A figo for the governor, and a figo for his flag.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iɡo
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese figo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfiɣʊ]
Noun
figo m (plural figos)
- fig (tree)
- Synonym: figueira
- '1299, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 431:
- dedes cadã ãnno a esse moesteyro polos figos que agora son feytos et pola froyta que y fezerdes d'aqui endeante hun capon por dia de san Martino
- you must give each year to this monastery, because of the figs made there and of the fruit you could make henceforth, a capon by the day of Saint Martin
- fig (fruit)
- 1366, M .Lucas Alvarez, M. & P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media, Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 520:
- non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos
- you will not give peaches nor figs
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- figo chumbo
- figo lampo
- figo santiaguiño
- figo vendimiño
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 Esperanto figo, English fig, French figue, German Feige, Italian fico, Russian фи́га (fíga), Spanish higo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiɡo/
Derived terms
- figiereyo (“fig garden”)
- figiero (“fig (tree)”)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -iɡo
- Hyphenation: fì‧go
Adjective
figo (feminine figa, masculine plural fighi, feminine plural fighe, superlative fighissimo)
- (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 English ditch, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk, German Deich (“dike”) and Teich (“pond”) (all from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”), Sanskrit देहि (dehi-, “wall”) and देह (deha, “body”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.ɡoː/, [ˈfiːɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/, [ˈfiːɡo]
Verb
fīgō (present infinitive fīgere, perfect active fīxī, supine fīxum); third conjugation
Conjugation
- The fourth principal part may also be fīctum.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
- to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
- figo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, 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
Portuguese

Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese figo, from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/ [ˈfi.ɣu]
- Homophone: Figo
- Hyphenation: fi‧go