faber

See also: Faber

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ber/, [ˈfäbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ber/, [ˈfäːber]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *faβros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“to fashion, fit”). Cognate with Armenian դարբին (darbin, “smith”), English daft, deft, Lithuanian dabà (“habit, character”), Czech dobrý (“good”).

Noun

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. artisan, craftsman, architect, creator, maker, artificer, forger, smith
   • (Paraphrase) Attributed to Appius Claudius Caecus by Sallustius in Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica, I.i.2

     Faber est quisque fortunae suae.

     Every man is the maker of his own fortune.

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	faber	fabrī
Genitive	fabrī	fabrōrum
Dative	fabrō	fabrīs
Accusative	fabrum	fabrōs
Ablative	fabrō	fabrīs
Vocative	faber	fabrī

Derived terms

• fabrica
• fābrīlis

Descendants

• Aromanian: favru, favur
• Catalan: fabre
• Dalmatian: favro
• Franco-Provençal: fâvro
• Friulian: fari
• Italian: fabbro
• Occitan: fabre, faure
• Old French: fèvre

• Portuguese: fabro (borrowing)
• Romanian: faur
• Sardinian: frau, frabbu
• Sicilian: fabbru, frabbu
• Spanish: fabro (borrowing)
• Venetian: fravo, favaro, favro

See also

• ferrārius

Etymology 2

From faber (“artisan; smith”).

Adjective

faber (feminine fabra, neuter fabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. workmanlike, skilful, ingenious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	faber	fabra	fabrum		fabrī	fabrae	fabra
Genitive	fabrī	fabrae	fabrī		fabrōrum	fabrārum	fabrōrum
Dative	fabrō		fabrō		fabrīs
Accusative	fabrum	fabram	fabrum		fabrōs	fabrās	fabra
Ablative	fabrō	fabrā	fabrō		fabrīs
Vocative	faber	fabra	fabrum		fabrī	fabrae	fabra

Derived terms

• fabrē

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. the dory, a sunfish

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	faber	fabrī
Genitive	fabrī	fabrōrum
Dative	fabrō	fabrīs
Accusative	fabrum	fabrōs
Ablative	fabrō	fabrīs
Vocative	faber	fabrī

References

• “faber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “faber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• faber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “faber”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fabbro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN