fucus

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English

Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosus
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Etymology

From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).

Pronunciation

Noun

fucus (plural fuci or fucuses)

  1. Any alga of the genus Fucus.
    • a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):
      Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.
    • 1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC, § I, page 11:
      One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.

French

Etymology

From New Latin Fucus, sometimes spelled as phucus..

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fy.kys/
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Noun

fucus m (plural fucus)

  1. fucus
  2. kelp

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Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, seaweed, orchil).

Noun

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

  1. seaweed; orchil, orchella weed, Roccella tinctoria
  2. red dye derived from it; (in general) dyestuff
  3. (as cosmetic) rouge
  4. (transf.) coloring
  5. (poetic) the reddish bee glue, propolis
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.38–40:
      (apēs) in tēctīs certātim tenvia cērā/spīrāmenta linunt fūcōque et flōribus ōrās/explent
      in their homes they (the bees) eagerly smear the passages with wax, fill the entrances with bee glue and nectar
  6. pretence, disguise, sham
    fūcum facere
    to play a trick
  7. artificial embellishment of literary style
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fūcus fūcī
genitive fūcī fūcōrum
dative fūcō fūcīs
accusative fūcum fūcōs
ablative fūcō fūcīs
vocative fūce fūcī
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Welsh: ffug

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *foikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoy-ko-s, from *bʰey-.[1] Cognate with Old Irish bech, English bee, and possibly Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, wasp).

Noun

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

  1. male bee, drone
    Synonym: cēphēnes m pl (Grecian)
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fūcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 245–6
  • fucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fucus 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)
  • fucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • fucus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fucus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin