{"content":{"id":1718,"title":"Daily Link","body":"\u003cp\u003eI was wondering why the Latin word for 'liver', 'iecur', is so different from the words in all the child languages. It turns out Italian 'fegato', French 'fois', Spanish 'hígado' and so on \u003ca href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ficatum#Etymology\"\u003eall come from the Latin word for fig\u003c/a\u003e, apparently because the Romans ate fig-stuffed pig liver, or maybe fig-fattened-pig liver.\u003c/p\u003e","publication_date":"2020-10-26T12:00:00.000Z","created_at":"2020-10-22T17:33:46.000Z","updated_at":"2020-10-26T19:51:34.000Z","user_id":1,"rating":null},"tags":"\u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=daily_links\"\u003edaily_links\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=rome\"\u003erome\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=latin\"\u003elatin\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=food\"\u003efood\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=italy\"\u003eitaly\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=ancient\"\u003eancient\u003c/a\u003e"}
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I was wondering why the Latin word for 'liver', 'iecur', is so different from the words in all the child languages. It turns out Italian 'fegato', French 'fois', Spanish 'hígado' and so on all come from the Latin word for fig, apparently because the Romans ate fig-stuffed pig liver, or maybe fig-fattened-pig liver.