Etymology

syconium

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Today it means: A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig; a hollow ball with a stalk at one end and an opening (ostiole) at the other, with flowers or fruits on the inside Full definition →

New Latin sȳconium ← Ancient Greek σῦκον
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσῦκον“fig”
  2. New Latin · borrowed fromsȳconium
  3. English todaysyconium

From New Latin sȳconium, from Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + -ium.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσῦκον all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.