fig Copy link Outline I. The fruit1. fīcus, i and ūs, f.2. grossus, i, c. (unripe)3. cārĭca (a dried f.II. The tree1. fīcus, i and ūs, f.2. (the wild f.) caprĭfīcus (or, as two words, capri ficus) • fig: I. The fruit: 1. fīcus, i and ūs, f.: Cic.: Hor.: f.-seeds, fici grana, Cic.: Plin.: f.-wine, vinum e fico factum (= sycītes, ae, m.), Plin. 14, 16, 19. 2. grossus, i, c. (unripe): Cels.: Plin. Dimin. grossulus, a small green f., Col. 3. cārĭca (a dried f.: strictly from Caria): Ov. Fast. 1, 185: the fem. adj. Caunea (of Caunus), was also used substantively: cf. Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84. Phr.: not to care a f. for anything, aliquid flocci facere or non facere; aliquid pili aestimare: v. straw (phr.). II. The tree: 1. fīcus, i and ūs, f.: Cic.: Plin. 2. (the wild f.) caprĭfīcus (or, as two words, capri ficus): Col.: Plin. Phr.: a plantation of f.s, ficētum, Varr.: Plin.; ficaria, Pall.: f. wood, ligna ficulnea, Varr.: a f. trunk, ficulnus truncus, Hor.: the f. gall-insect, ficarius culex, Plin. 11, 35, 41.