FIG Copy link • FIG 1. a mere butterfly in love, desultor amoris. 2. The tree, arbor fici: ficus (συκῆ, *ficus carica, Linn.): caprificus (ἐπινεός, a wild fig-tree, the fruit of which does not become ripe): sycomorus (the Egyptian fig-tree, *ficus sycombrus, Linn.): a place planted with fig-trees or figs, ficetum: of a fig, ficulnus or ficulneus: wood of a fig, lignum ficulneum. The fruit, ficus: the green or unripe fig, grossus: the dried fig, carica: good Caunean figs, Cauneae: a small fig, ficulus: belonging or relating to figs, ficarius: a fig-leaf, folium ficulneum: a fig-garden, ficetum: a fig-kernel, granum fici: stewed figs, sycatum (Apicius): wine made of figs, sycites; vinum e fico factum or expressum (Vid: Plin. 14, 16, 18, No. 3): not to care a fig about or for anything, aliquid flocci non facere (Cic.), or non pendere (Plaut., etc.); non pili unius facere (Catullus); non nauci habere (Ennius, ap. Cic.); non assis, ne teruncii quidem facere; non unius assis aestimare.