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語源

From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).

発音

• IPA: /ˈfjuː.kəs/

名詞

fucus (plural fuci or fucuses)

1. 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.

   • 1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § I, page 11:

     One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.

派生語

語源 1

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

名詞

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

1. seaweed; orchil, orchella weed, Roccella tinctoria
2. red dye derived from it; (in general) dyestuff
3. (as cosmetic) rouge
4. (transf.) coloring
5. (poetic) the reddish bee glue, propolis
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.38–40:

     (apēs) in tēctīs certātim tenvia cērā/spīrāmenta linunt fūcōque et flōribus ōrās/explent

     in their homes they (the bees) eagerly smear the passages with wax, fill the entrances with bee glue and nectar

6. pretence, disguise, sham

   fūcum facere

   to play a trick

7. artificial embellishment of literary style

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• fūcō

派生した語

• → Proto-Brythonic: *fʉg
  • Cornish: fug
  • Middle Welsh: ffuc
    • Welsh: ffug

語源 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.

名詞

fūcus m (genitive fūcī); second declension

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

     immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Synonym: cēphēnes m pl (Grecian)

2. (Contemporary Latin) unmanned aircraft drone
   • 2025 September 21, Lydia Ariminensis, “Aëromobiles a Russia in caelum alienum evolaverunt”, in Ephemeris‎:

     Priore hebdomada XIX “fuci” Poloniam petierunt, aliquot a finitima Bielorussia: partim ceciderunt, partim deiecti sunt ab aëronavibus Natonis.

     Last week, nineteen drones entered Poland, several of which from neighbouring Belarus: some hit, others were intercepted by NATO aircraft.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• Italian: fuco

参照

• “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 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