φραγκόσυκο

From Φράγκος (Frágkos, “Frank, a foreign European”) +‎ σύκο (sýko, “fig”) in the sense of a "foreign fig".

φραγκόσυκο • (fragkósyko) n (plural φραγκόσυκα)

1. (fruit) prickly pear, cactus pear, the edible fruit of Opuntia ficus-indica

• κακτόσυκο n (kaktósyko, literally “cactus fig”) (rare) (cf. Kaktusfeige)
• παπουτσόσυκο n (papoutsósyko, literally “shoe fig or aubergine fig”) (dialectal, Cyprus), (common)
• παυλόσυκο n (pavlósyko, literally “Paul's fig”) (dialectal, Corfu)
• φαραόσυκο n (faraósyko, literally “Pharaoh's fig, perhaps by corruption of φραγκόσυκο”) (dialectal, Cyclades)
• μπαρμπαρόσυκο n (barmparósyko, literally “Barbary fig”) (dialectal, Cephalonia) (cf. figue de Barbarie)
• αραπόσυκο n (arapósyko, literally “Arab fig”) (dated)

• φραγκόσυκο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• φραγκόσυκο, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• Nikos Sarantakos (2013) “Κεφ. 9–Το σύκο που ήρθε απ’ αλλού”, in Οπωροφόρες λέξεις (in Greek), Athens: Κλειδάριθμος, →ISBN