fucus

From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuː.kəs/

fucus (plural fuci or fucuses)

1. Any alga of the genus Fucus.
   • a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):

     Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.

   • 1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § I, page 11:

     One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.

From New Latin Fucus, sometimes spelled as phucus..

• IPA^(key): /fy.kys/

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fucus m (plural fucus)

1. fucus
2. kelp

• goémon
• varech

• “fucus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.kus/, [ˈfuːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.kus/, [ˈfuːkus]

From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed, orchil”).

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. seaweed; orchil, orchella weed, Roccella tinctoria
2. red dye derived from it; (in general) dyestuff
3. (as cosmetic) rouge
4. (transf.) coloring
5. (poetic) the reddish bee glue, propolis
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.38–40:

     (apēs) in tēctīs certātim tenvia cērā/spīrāmenta linunt fūcōque et flōribus ōrās/explent

     in their homes they (the bees) eagerly smear the passages with wax, fill the entrances with bee glue and nectar

6. pretence, disguise, sham

   fūcum facere

   to play a trick

7. artificial embellishment of literary style

Second-declension noun.

• fūcō

• → Welsh: ffug

From Proto-Italic *foikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoy-ko-s, from *bʰey-.[1] Cognate with Old Irish bech, English bee, and possibly Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”).

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. male bee, drone
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.244:

     immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus

   Synonym: cēphēnes m pl (Grecian)

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: fuco

• “fucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fucus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fucus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fucus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin