fig

CEFRB1

/fɪɡ/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A small sweet fruit with soft flesh and many seeds.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

Examples

  • I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.

  • It's too bad the college dining hall doesn't have fig cookies.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.

  2. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.

  3. A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)

More examples

In context

  • Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree."

  • figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins

  • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!

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Origin

noun

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 resemblan...