Etymology

caricous

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Today it means: Shaped like a fig. Full definition →

Latin carica
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcarica“a kind of dry fig”
  2. English todaycaricous

Latin carica (“a kind of dry fig”) + -ous.

Words from the same roots

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caricæ

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