Febrarius

Latin

Proper noun

Febrārius m sg (genitive Febrāriī or Febrārī); second declension (Late Latin, proscribed)

1. Alternative form of Februārius
   • 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 208:

     Februarius non Febrarius

     [The correct form is] Februarius, not Febrarius

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Febrārius
Genitive	Febrāriī Febrārī1
Dative	Febrāriō
Accusative	Febrārium
Ablative	Febrāriō
Vocative	Febrārī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: făurar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: febbraio
  • Neapolitan: frebbaro, febbraro
  • Sicilian: frivaru
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: farvèr
  • Ligurian: frevâ, freâ, feivé
  • Lombard: fevré, feuré
  • Piedmontese: fërvé, fevré, feuré
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: fevriér
  • French: février
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: febrer
  • Gascon: heurèr, hrevèr, herevèr, hervèr, hiurèr
  • Occitan: febrièr, febrier

    Auvergnat: feurèir

    Limousin: feurier

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: febrer, febrero
  • Asturian:

    Occidental: febreiru, ferbeiru, frebeiru, firbeiru

    Central: febreru, febriru, freberu

    Oriental: ḥebreru

  • Leonese: febreiru, frebeiru
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fevreyro, frebreyro, febreyro, fevereyro, fevereiro
    • Fala: febreiru, febereiru
    • Galician: febreiro
    • Portuguese: fevereiro (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: hebrero (dated) → febrero (semi-learned)

References

• “Febrārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fĕbrārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “657/3”
• “Febrārius” on page 682/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)