Fungus, etiam in lucernis dicitur. Virgil. The snuffe of a candle.Albos fungos colligit.Ouid.Ancipites fungi.Iuuen.Dangerous to eate.Pluuiales fungi.Ouid. Fungi pratenses. Hor. Fungus, Arborum morbus. Plini. A kinde of blasting in trees by heate of the sunne. Fungum hominem, pro Stupido & insulso posuit.Plaut.A dull head: a dolte: afoole.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fungus, i, m. [for sfungus, kindred to sfo/ggos, spo/ggos, the initial s suppressed as in fallo, fides, nurus, etc.; cf. funis, and v. the letter S.], a mushroom, moril, fungus.I.Lit.: satis esse nobis non magis hoc potis est quam imber fungo, Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 33; Plin. 22, 23, 47, 96; Hor. S. 2, 4, 20.—II.Transf.A.A soft-pated fellow, a dolt: stulti, stolidi, fatui, fungi, bardi, blenni, buccones, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 2; so id. ib. 2, 3, 49; 4, 7, 23.—B.A fungous excrescence on the human body, Tert. Spect. 23; cf.: fungo simile ulcus, Cels. 6, 18, 11.—On the olive-tree, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 223.—C.A collection of lamp-black on the wick of a candle or lamp, a candle-snuff, Verg. G. 1, 392.