fico

From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.

A fico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪkəʊ/

fico (plural ficoes)

1. (archaic) a fig; an insignificant trifle
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     a fico for the phrase.

2. (archaic) a sign of contempt made with the fingers

• coif, foci

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ku/

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative form of ficar

From Latin fīcus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ko/

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• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: fì‧co

fico (feminine fica, masculine plural fichi, feminine plural fiche, superlative fichissimo)

1. (slang) great, cool (admirable)

   Synonym: (Northern Italy) figo

fico m (plural fichi, diminutive fichìno, augmentative ficóne, pejorative ficàccio, derogatory ficùccio)

1. fig (fresh fruit and tree)
2. (slang) cool guy, bit of alright

• The slang term becomes figo in Northern Italy.

• foci

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.koː/, [ˈfiːkoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ko/, [ˈfiːko]

fīcō

1. dative/ablative singular of fīcus

• fico in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiko/ [ˈfi.ko]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: fi‧co

fico

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficar

From fi- +‎ co (“to see”).

• IPA^(key): /ɸi.ˈt͡ʃo/

fico

1. (transitive) to look at
2. (transitive) to keep an eye on

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics