fagea

Latin

Etymology

From an ellipsis of materia fāgea (“beech timber”), feminine of the adjective fāgeus, derived from fāgus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.ɡe.a/, [ˈfäːɡeä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.d͡ʒe.a/, [ˈfäːd͡ʒeä]

Noun

fāgea f (genitive fāgeae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) beech (tree of genus Fagus)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fāgea	fāgeae
Genitive	fāgeae	fāgeārum
Dative	fāgeae	fāgeīs
Accusative	fāgeam	fāgeās
Ablative	fāgeā	fāgeīs
Vocative	fāgea	fāgeae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Tuscan: faggia (northern)
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: fasa, fagia
  • Lombard: fagia (Bergamasque)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: faya
  • Catalan: faja
  • Occitan:
    • ⇒ Gascon: hajòla
    • Limousin: faja
    • Vivaro-Alpine: faja, fagea ⇒ faiòla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: faya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: faia
    • Galician: faia
    • Portuguese: faia
  • Spanish: haya

References

• fagea 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)