faenile

Latin

Alternative forms

• fēnīle

Etymology

From faenum +‎ -īle.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fae̯ˈniː.le/, [fäe̯ˈniːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈni.le/, [feˈniːle]

Noun

faenīle n (genitive faenīlis); third declension (in Classical Latin plural only)

1. hayloft
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.318–321:

     Ergō omnī studiō glaciem ventōsque nivālīs,
     quō minor est illīs cūrae mortālis egestās,
     avertēs, vīctumque ferēs et virgea laetus
     pābula, nec tōtā claudēs faenīlia brūmā.

     Therefore, the ice and the snowy winds, with all the zeal,
     the less human care [the animals] need,
     you shall keep away, and happily bring food and woody
     fodder, nor close the hayloft for the entire winter.

   • a. 75 CE, Lucilius Junior (uncertain), Aetna 270–272:

     […] levēs cruciant animōs et corpora causae
     horrea utī saturent, tumeant et dōlia mustō,
     plēnaque dēsectō surgant faenilīa campō.

     […] insubstantial concerns torment souls and bodies
     that barns be satiated, that casks also swell with wine,
     and that full haylofts rise on the reaped field.

2. (very rare, glossaries only) a meadow where hay is harvested
   • 1888, Georg Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum II, Teubner, page 478, line 6:

     χορτοκόπιον faenīle faenī saecium

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	faenīle	faenīlia
Genitive	faenīlis	faenīlium
Dative	faenīlī	faenīlibus
Accusative	faenīle	faenīlia
Ablative	faenīlī	faenīlibus
Vocative	faenīle	faenīlia

Descendants

See fēnīle; it is this form that the Romance descendants come from.

References

• “faenile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• faenile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “faenīle” in volume VI 1, column 165, line 6 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present