Where does “figpecker” come from?

figpecker (English) comes from English fig, from Middle English fige, from Anglo-Norman figue, from Old French figue, from Occitan figa, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin fica, from Latin ficus — Ripe fig.

figpecker (English): A bird, the western Orphean warbler, "Sylvia...

Definitions

  1. A bird, the western Orphean warbler, "Sylvia...

Ancestry of “figpecker”, step by step

figpecker traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English fig

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfigA fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus...
2Middle EnglishfigeA fig tree; A fig; A kind of boil or sore
3Anglo-Normanfiguefig
4Old Frenchfiguefig
5Occitanfigafig
6Old Occitanfigafig
7Vulgar Latinficafig; fig, fig-tree
8Latinficusfig tree; fig; hemorrhoids
9Phoenician??Ripe fig

via English pecker

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpeckerSomeone who or something that pecks, striking or...
2Middle Englishpekker
Every word from Phoenician ??Every word from Latin ficusEvery word from Vulgar Latin fica