fucus

== English == === Etymology === From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfjuː.kəs/ === Noun === fucus (plural fuci or fucuses) 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. ==== Derived terms ==== == French == === Etymology === From New Latin Fucus, sometimes spelled as phucus.. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fy.kys/ === Noun === fucus m (invariable) fucus kelp ==== Synonyms ==== goémon varech === Further reading === “fucus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfuː.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfuː.kus] === Etymology 1 === From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed, orchil”). ==== Noun ==== fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension seaweed; orchil, orchella weed, Roccella tinctoria red dye derived from it; (in general) dyestuff (as cosmetic) rouge (transf.) coloring (poetic) the reddish bee glue, propolis pretence, disguise, sham artificial embellishment of literary style ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== fūcō ===== Descendants ===== → Proto-Brythonic: *fʉg Cornish: fug Middle Welsh: ffuc Welsh: ffug === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Italic *foikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoy-ko-s, from *bʰey-. Cognate with Old Irish bech, English bee, and possibly Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”). Sense two is a Semantic loan from English drone. ==== Noun ==== fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension male bee, drone Synonym: cēphēnes m pl (Grecian) (Contemporary Latin) unmanned aircraft drone ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== Italian: fuco === References === “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, 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