faginus

Latin

Etymology

From fāgus (“beech”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.ɡi.nus/, [ˈfäːɡɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.d͡ʒi.nus/, [ˈfäːd͡ʒinus]

Adjective

fāginus (feminine fāgina, neuter fāginum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to a beech tree

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fāginus	fāgina	fāginum		fāginī	fāginae	fāgina
Genitive	fāginī	fāginae	fāginī		fāginōrum	fāginārum	fāginōrum
Dative	fāginō		fāginō		fāginīs
Accusative	fāginum	fāginam	fāginum		fāginōs	fāginās	fāgina
Ablative	fāginō	fāginā	fāginō		fāginīs
Vocative	fāgine	fāgina	fāginum		fāginī	fāginae	fāgina

Related terms

• fāgeus
• fāgineus
• fāgus

Descendants

• Aragonese: fuina
• Catalan: fagina
• English: foin
• French: faine, faîne, fouine
• Friulian: faìne
• Galician: fuiña

• Italian: faina
• Occitan: faïna
• Portuguese: fuinha
• Spanish: fuina
• Venetian: fuìna, foìna

References

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