figo

English

Noun

figo (plural figos)

1. Alternative form of fico
   • 1832, Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving), “The Governor and the Notary”, in Tales of the Alhambra‎^[1], revised edition, published 1851:

     A figo for the governor, and a figo for his flag.

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ficus.

Noun

figo

1. fig

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iɡo

Noun

figo (accusative singular figon, plural figoj, accusative plural figojn)

1. fig (fruit)

Derived terms

• figarbo, figujo

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)

1. 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

2. 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

• breva

Derived terms

• figo chumbo
• figo lampo
• figo santiaguiño
• figo vendimiño

Related terms

• cabrafigo
• figueira
• papafigo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “figo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “figo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “figo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “figo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “figo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto figo, English fig, French figue, German Feige, Italian fico, Russian фи́га (fíga), Spanish higo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡo/

Noun

figo (plural figi)

1. fig (fruit)

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)

1. (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 Latin) 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

1. to fasten, fix

   Synonyms: colligō, adalligō, cōnfīgō, cōnserō, dēligō, ligō, illigō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, vinculō, dēstinō

   Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō

2. to transfix, pierce

   Synonyms: trānsfīgō, peragō, cōnfodiō, intrō, trāiciō, percutiō, fodiō, trānsigō

3. to erect, post, set up

   Synonyms: pono, colloco, loco, sisto, statuo, constituo, impono, defigo

4. to affirm, assert

   Synonyms: affirmō, firmō, contendō, aiō, arguō

5. to drive nails

Conjugation

• The fourth principal part may also be fīctum.

Conjugation of fīgō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fīgō	fīgis	fīgit	fīgimus	fīgitis	fīgunt
	imperfect	fīgēbam	fīgēbās	fīgēbat	fīgēbāmus	fīgēbātis	fīgēbant
	future	fīgam	fīgēs	fīget	fīgēmus	fīgētis	fīgent
	perfect	fīxī	fīxistī	fīxit	fīximus	fīxistis	fīxērunt, fīxēre
	pluperfect	fīxeram	fīxerās	fīxerat	fīxerāmus	fīxerātis	fīxerant
	future perfect	fīxerō	fīxeris	fīxerit	fīxerimus	fīxeritis	fīxerint
passive	present	fīgor	fīgeris, fīgere	fīgitur	fīgimur	fīgiminī	fīguntur
	imperfect	fīgēbar	fīgēbāris, fīgēbāre	fīgēbātur	fīgēbāmur	fīgēbāminī	fīgēbantur
	future	fīgar	fīgēris, fīgēre	fīgētur	fīgēmur	fīgēminī	fīgentur
	perfect	fīxus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	fīxus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	fīxus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fīgam	fīgās	fīgat	fīgāmus	fīgātis	fīgant
	imperfect	fīgerem	fīgerēs	fīgeret	fīgerēmus	fīgerētis	fīgerent
	perfect	fīxerim	fīxerīs	fīxerit	fīxerīmus	fīxerītis	fīxerint
	pluperfect	fīxissem	fīxissēs	fīxisset	fīxissēmus	fīxissētis	fīxissent
passive	present	fīgar	fīgāris, fīgāre	fīgātur	fīgāmur	fīgāminī	fīgantur
	imperfect	fīgerer	fīgerēris, fīgerēre	fīgerētur	fīgerēmur	fīgerēminī	fīgerentur
	perfect	fīxus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	fīxus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	fīge	—	—	fīgite	—
	future	—	fīgitō	fīgitō	—	fīgitōte	fīguntō
passive	present	—	fīgere	—	—	fīgiminī	—
	future	—	fīgitor	fīgitor	—	—	fīguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fīgere	fīxisse	fīxūrum esse	fīgī	fīxum esse	fīxum īrī
participles		fīgēns	—	fīxūrus	—	fīxus	fīgendus, fīgundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fīgendī	fīgendō	fīgendum	fīgendō	fīxum	fīxū

Derived terms

• affīgō
• cōnfīgō
• crucifīgō
• dēfīgō
• fībula
• fīxūra
• fīxus
• īnfīgō
• offīgō
• perfīgō
• praefīgō
• refīgō
• suffīgō
• trānsfīgō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: hig, higu, nhig, nhigu
• Italian: figgere
• Vulgar Latin:
  • *fictāre
    • Galician: fitar
    • Portuguese: fitar
  • *fīgicāre (see there for further descendants)
  • *fixāre
    • Italian: fissare
    • Sicilian: fissari

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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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^[3], 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

Noun

figo f

1. vocative singular of figa

Portuguese

figos

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese figo, from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡu/ [ˈfi.ɣu]

• Homophone: Figo
• Hyphenation: fi‧go

Noun

figo m (plural figos)

1. fig (fruit)

Derived terms

• figueira

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mpígò.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

figo (ma class, plural mafigo)

1. kidney