fico

From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪkəʊ/

fico (plural ficoes)

1. (archaic) a fig; an insignificant trifle
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     a fico for the phrase.

2. (archaic) a sign of contempt made with the fingers
   • 1894, Stanley John Weyman, “XXI. Among the Wounded”, in My Lady Rotha:

     As for these chicken-hearted tremblers,' he continued, squinting askance at our companions, 'a fico for them!

• “fico”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• coif, foci

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfi.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfi.ko]

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficar

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficar

From Latin ficus.

fico m (plural fichi, diminutive fichìno, augmentative ficóne, pejorative ficàccio, derogatory ficùccio)

1. fig (fresh fruit and tree)

From Romanesco fico, clipping of ficaccio, an alteration of efficace (“effective”), from Latin efficax. Not related to fica, which is from Latin ficus (“fig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ko/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: fì‧co

fico m (plural fichi, diminutive fichìno, augmentative ficóne, pejorative ficàccio, derogatory ficùccio)

1. (slang) cool guy, bit of alright

fico (feminine fica, masculine plural fichi, feminine plural fiche, superlative fichissimo)

1. (slang) great, cool (admirable)

   Synonym: (Northern Italy) figo

Accademia della Crusca

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.ko]

fīcō

1. dative/ablative singular of fīcus

• "fico", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficar

   Fico feliz em ajudar. ― I am happy to help.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiko/ [ˈfi.ko]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: fi‧co

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficar

From fi- +‎ co (“to see”).

• IPA^(key): /ɸi.ˈt͡ʃo/

fico

1. (transitive) to look at
2. (transitive) to keep an eye on

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics