figo

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.

From Latin ficus.

figo

1. fig

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• Rhymes: -iɡo

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

1. fig (fruit)

• figarbo, figujo

From Old Galician-Portuguese figo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfiɣʊ]

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

• breva

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

• cabrafigo
• figueira
• papafigo

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡo/

figo (plural figi)

1. fig (fruit)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Hyphenation: fì‧go

figo (feminine figa, masculine plural fighi, feminine plural fighe, superlative fighissimo)

1. (slang, northern Italy) alternative form of fico; great, cool, bit of alright

figo m (plural fighi)

1. (slang) alternative form of fico; cool guy, sexy and/or virile man

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”). Not to be confused with the probably-unrelated Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form”) (the latter whence Latin fingō (“idem”), Sanskrit देहि (dehi-, “wall”) and देह (deha, “body”)).

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

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

• The fourth principal part may also be fīctum.

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

• “figo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• figo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), 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 (16 July 2016 (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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡɔ/
• Rhymes: -iɡɔ
• Syllabification: fi‧go

figo f

1. vocative singular of figa

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

• Homophone: Figo
• Hyphenation: fi‧go

figo m (plural figos)

1. fig (fruit)
2. (Brazil, botany) Pouteria ramiflora (large Brazilian tree)

   Synonyms: fruta-de-manteiga, fruta-de-veado, guacá, joão, joão-de-leite, leitosa

• figueira

• “figo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “figo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• figo on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

From Proto-Bantu *mpígò.

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figo class V (plural mafigo class VI)

1. kidney