The story
- Old English · inherited fromfīctrēow“fig tree”
- Middle English · inherited fromfigge tre
- English todayfig tree
From Middle English figge tre, a partial calque of fike tre, fictre, fic-treow, from Old English fīctrēow (“fig tree”), equivalent to fig + tree.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.