fig – English noun declension

English noun forms of fig

Noun: fig
Singularfig
Pluralfigs

Sample Sentences

  • And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:7:]
  • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter! [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
  • J. senses the entente between Eva and me and doesn't like it one fig. [2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:]
  • figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
  • “You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.” [1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 109:]
  • This was followed by his presenting his sable acquaintance with a fig of tobacco, whereupon, instead of thanking the donor in the usual way, the black signified his gratitude by throwing a spear at twenty or thirty yards' distance. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 289:]

Etymology

From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico. See: Middle English Nouns 'fige', Old English Nouns 'fīc', Latin Nouns 'fīcus', English Nouns 'sycophant'.

Verbs referencing "fig"

Spanish Nouns higo, Icelandic Nouns fíkja, Swedish Nouns fikon, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns fike, Danish Nouns figen.