Translingual

Fucus serratus

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Fucus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fucaceae – certain brown alga.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Fucus vesiculosus - type species; Fucus aleuticus, Fucus ceranoides, Fucus chalonii, Fucus cottonii, Fucus distichus, Fucus evanescens, Fucus gardneri, Fucus nereideus, Fucus serratus, Fucus spermophorus, Fucus spiralis, Fucus tendo, Fucus virsoides - species

English

Wikispecies

Noun

fucus ‎(plural fuci or fucuses)

1. Any alga of the genus Fucus.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.kys/

Noun

fucus m ‎(plural fucus)

1. fucus
2. kelp

Synonyms

• goémon
• varech

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.kus/, [ˈfuː.kʊs]

Etymology 1

Cognate with Ancient Greek φῦκος ‎(phûkos, “seaweed, orchil”).

Noun

fūcus m ‎(genitive fūcī); second declension

1. orchil, seaweed
2. (as cosmetic) rouge
3. (for woolen goods) red dye
4. pretence, disguise, sham
5. (poetic) bee glue, propolis
   • Vergil, Georgics, 4.37-41 :

     ...neque illae/nequiquam in tectis certatim tenuia cera/spiramenta linunt fucoque et floribus oras/explent collectumque haec ipsa ad munera gluten/et visco et Phrygiae servant pice lentius Idae.

     ...nor for them/for naught the roofs' moilingly with thin wax/the spiracles do they line with rouge and dust by flowers' mouths'/expelled, garnered for the office of cement/than bird-lime which holds more still, or than the pitch from Phrygian Ida's pines.

Inflection

Second declension.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰī- ‎(“bee”), *bʰey-. Cognate with Ancient Greek σφήξ ‎(sphḗx, “wasp”).

Noun

fūcus m ‎(genitive fūcī); second declension

1. male bee, drone
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 2.244

     immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus

Inflection

Second declension.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fucus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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