sycamore

sycamore
\ \ [14] The sycamore is etymologically either the ‘fig-mulberry’ or the ‘mulberrymulberry’.
\ \ The word came via Old French sicamor and Latin sycomorus from Greek sūkómoros. This was a compound based on móron ‘mulberry’, its first element being either Greek súkon ‘fig’ or an adaptation of Hebrew shiqmāh ‘mulberry’. It was originally used in English for a type of fig tree (the sycomores mentioned in the Bible – as in ‘The sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars’, Isaiah 9:10 – are fig trees), and the modern application to a variety of maple did not emerge until the 16th century.
\ \ Cf.⇒ SYCOPHANT

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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Synonyms:
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