See also: ficc and fîc

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Etymology

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    Clipping of fanfic, itself a clipping of fan fiction.

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    fic (countable and uncountable, plural fics)

    1. (slang, countable) A fictional story set within a preexisting fandom; a fanfic.

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    Albanian

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    Etymology

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    From an unattested *fij, from Proto-Albanian *spija, cognate with Sanskrit स्फायते (spháyate, to become fat), Proto-Slavic *spěti (to ripen).[1]

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    fic (aorist fica, participle ficur)

    1. (transitive) to make soft

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    1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “fic”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 96

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    • fic”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
    • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Latin fīcus (fig).

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      fic m (plural fics)

      1. wart
        Synonym: berruga
      2. Alpine buckthorn
        Synonym: púdol
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      Middle English

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      fic

      1. alternative form of fyke

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      From Proto-West Germanic *fīk, *fīgā.

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      fīc m

      1. a fig or fig tree
      2. piles, hemorrhoids

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      Strong a-stem:

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      • Middle English: fike, fyke

      Portuguese

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      fic f (plural fics)

      1. (colloquial, slang) clipping of fanfic