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.
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.