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Where does “figer” come from?

figer (Middle English) comes from Old French figier, from Latin ficarius, from Latin ficus, from Phoenician ?? — Ripe fig.

figer (Middle English): A fig tree

Definitions

  1. A fig tree

Ancestry of “figer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfigier—
2Latinficariusfig
3Latinficusfig tree; fig; hemorrhoids
4Phoenician??Ripe fig
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