sycamore fig
11fig — English has two words fig. Fig the fruit [13] comes via Old French figue, Provençal figua, and Vulgar Latin *fica from Latin ficus. This, together with its Greek relative súkon (source of English sycamore and sycophant), came from a pre Indo… …
12fig — English has two words fig. Fig the fruit [13] comes via Old French figue, Provençal figua, and Vulgar Latin *fica from Latin ficus. This, together with its Greek relative súkon (source of English sycamore and sycophant), came from a pre Indo… …
13sycamore — noun Etymology: Middle English sicamour, from Anglo French sicamour, from Latin sycomorus, from Greek sykomoros, probably modification of a Semitic word akin to Hebrew shiqmāh sycamore Date: 14th century 1. (also sycomore) a fig tree (Ficus… …
14sycamore — [14] The sycamore is etymologically either the ‘fig mulberry’ or the ‘mulberrymulberry’. The word came via Old French sicamor and Latin sycomorus from Greek sūkómoros. This was a compound based on móron ‘mulberry’, its first element being either… …
15sycamore — [14] The sycamore is etymologically either the ‘fig mulberry’ or the ‘mulberrymulberry’. The word came via Old French sicamor and Latin sycomorus from Greek sūkómoros. This was a compound based on móron ‘mulberry’, its first element being either… …
16sycamore — syc•a•more [[t]ˈsɪk əˌmɔr, ˌmoʊr[/t]] n. 1) pln Also called buttonwood any plane tree, esp. Platanus occidentalis of E North America, having palmately lobed leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber. 2) pln Brit. the sycamore maple… …
17Sycamore — More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the fig mulberry (Ficus sycomorus). At Jericho …
18sycamore — /ˈsɪkəmɔ / (say sikuhmaw) noun 1. (in Europe) a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, grown as a shady ornamental tree and for its wood. 2. (in the US) the plane tree or buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis. 3. a tree, Ficus sycomorus, of western Asia, allied …
19sycamore — n. 1 (in full sycamore maple) a a large maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, with winged seeds, grown for its shade and timber. b its wood. 2 US the plane tree or its wood. 3 Bibl. a fig tree, Ficus sycomorus, growing in Egypt, Syria, etc. Etymology: var …
20sycamore — noun 1》 a large maple native to central and southern Europe. [Acer pseudoplatanus.] 2》 N. Amer. a buttonwood tree. 3》 (also sycomore) a Middle Eastern fig tree. [Ficus sycomorus.] Origin ME: from OFr. sic(h)amor, via L. from Gk sukomoros, from… …
