ficatum

Ellipsis of iecur fīcātum (literally “figgy liver”). Derived from fīcus (“fig”) +‎ -ātum (“-y, -ed”, attributive adjective suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈkaː.tum/, [fiːˈkäːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈka.tum/, [fiˈkäːt̪um]

fīcātum n (genitive fīcātī); second declension

1. liver (from an animal fattened on figs); foie gras

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “ficatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ficatum 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)
• ficatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.