fagus

See also: Fagus

Latin[edit]

From Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”), same source as English beech, Russian бузина́ (buziná, “elder”), Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós, “oak”).

fāgus f (genitive fāgī); second declension

beech tree
- Vergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1)
  Sub tegmine fagi.
  Under the shade of a beech tree.

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: fag
- Romanian: fag
Italo-Romance:
- Sicilian: fagu
Padanian:
- Emilian: fò
- Friulian: fau
- Ligurian: fò
- Lombard: fo
- Piedmontese: fò
- Romansch: fau, fo
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: fo
- Oïl:
  - Gallo: faeu
  - Old French: fau, fou
    - ⇒ French: fouet
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: fau, favo (most dialects)
  Belsetán: faus
  
  Benasqués: fago
  
  Sobrarbe: fago
- Catalan: fau (northwestern and Ribagorçan)
- Occitan: fau (most dialects)
  Gascon: hau, hac
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: fagu, fau
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fāgārius
- Dalmatian: faguor
- Venetian: fagaro, faghèr, faghèra
Ancient borrowings:
- → Basque: pago
- → Welsh: ffaw ⇒ ffawydd
Translingual: Fagus

“fagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fagus 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)
fagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.