FÍC
- noun [ masculine ]
Grammar
a Fig, the fruit of the fig-tree; fīcus: found at present only in the following compounds in the sense of a tree or fruit, etc. — fíc-æppel, -beám, -leáf, -treów.
a disease so called, the piles, hemorrhoids; fīcus
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Wið seóndum ómum, ðæt is fíc
for running erysipelas, that is the 'fig,'
- L. M. cont. 1, 39 ;
- Lchdm. ii. 10, 7: L. M. 1, 39 ;
- Lchdm. ii. 102, 12.
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Lǽcedómas and drencas and sealfa wið fíce
medicines and drinks and salves for the 'fig,'
- L. M. cont. 1, 57 ;
- Lchdm. ii. 12, 18.
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Gif se fíc [MS. uíc] weorþe on mannes setle geseten,
if the 'fig' be settled on a man's fundament,
- Lchdm. iii. 30, 16.
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Se blédenda fíc
the bleeding 'fig,'
- iii. 38, 8.
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Wið ðone blédendne [MS. blédende] fíc nim murran ða wyrt
for the bleeding 'fig' take the plant sweet-cicely,
- iii. 8, 1.
Etymology
Plat. fige, f
: Dut. vijg, f
: Ger. feige, f
: M. H. Ger. víge, f
: O. H. Ger. fíga. f
: Lat. fīcus, f. and m.
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Entry information
Citation
Bosworth, Joseph. “FÍC.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/10643.
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