- σῦκον
- σῦκονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `fig', also metaph. `wart, swelling, pudenda muliebria' (η 121).Other forms: Boeot. (Stratt.) τῦκον.Dialectal forms: Myc. su-za? f. συκία `fig tree'Compounds: Often as 1. member, e.g. συκό-μορον n. `fruit of the mulberry-(fig)tree' (Str., Dsc. a.o.), -ος f. `mulberry-(fig)tree, sycamore' (Cels.), -έα f. `id.' (Ev. Luc. a.o.); cf. συκάμινον and μόρον.Derivatives: A. Subst. 1. Dimin. συκ-ίδιον, -άριον n. (com.). 2. -ίς, -άς f. `cutting from a fig-tree' (Ar., Poll.). 3. -έα, Dor. Aeol. also -ία, IA. -έη, -ῆ, `fig-tree' (Od.). 4. -ίον n. `fig-drink' (Hp.). 5. -(ε)ών, -(ε)ῶνος m. `fig-plantation' (LXX, pap.). 6. -ίτης m. (οἶνος) `of a fig-tree, fig-wine' (Dsc.), Spartan surn. of Dionysos (Sosib.); Redard 100 a. 212; -ῖτις f. name of a precious stone, after the colour (Plin.). 7. -αλ(λ)ίς, -ίδος f. `fig-throstle', Lat. fīcēdula (Epich., Arist. etc.; Niedermann Glotta 19, 9f.). B. Adj. 1. -ινος `of a fig-tree', metaph. `useless' (IA.). 2. -ώδης `fig-like, full of warts' (Arist., medic.). 3. -άσιος surn. of Zeus = καθάρσιος, as figs were used for purification (Eust., H.). C. Verbs. 1. -άζω, also w. ἀπο-, `to gather figs' (Att.), also `to investigate (f.), συκοφαντέω' (Aristaenet., H.) with -αστής, -άστρια = συκο-φάντης, -φάντρια (EM, H.). 2. -ίζομαι `to be foddered with figs' (AP). 3. -όομαι `id.' (AP), from where -ωτός `foddered with figs' (Aët.), ἧπαρ σῦκον `liver fatted with figs', Lat. fĩcātum (Gal., Orib.), -ωσις f., -ωμα n. `formation of warts', -ωτικός `related to warts' (medic.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Like Lat. fīcus and Arm. t`uz `fig' LW [loanword] from unknown, Mediterranean or Anatolian source. Lit. in W.-Hofmann s.v. The variation must be explained from a form *tyuk-, with a palatalized \/t\/..Page in Frisk: 2,818
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