fagus

See also: Fagus

Latin

fāgus (beech tree)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.ɡus/, [ˈfäːɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɡus/, [ˈfäːɡus]

Noun

fāgus f (genitive fāgī); second declension

1. 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 beach tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fāgus	fāgī
Genitive	fāgī	fāgōrum
Dative	fāgō	fāgīs
Accusative	fāgum	fāgōs
Ablative	fāgō	fāgīs
Vocative	fāge	fāgī

Derived terms

• fāgeus
• fāgineus
• fāgīnus

Descendants

• Translingual: Fagus
• Aromanian: fag
• Asturian: faya
• Basque: pago
• Catalan: faig m
• Dalmatian: faguor
• Franco-Provençal: fo
• French: fouet

• Friulian: faiâr
• Galician: faia
• Gallo: faeu
• Italian: faggio
• Ligurian: fò
• Mozarabic: فاغه (fagu)
• Occitan: fau
• Old French: fau, fou
• Portuguese: faia

• Romanian: fag
• Romansch: fau, fo
• Sardinian: fagu, fau
• Sicilian: fagu, fau, favu
• Spanish: haya
• Venetian: fajo, fasa, faxa, fagaro, faghèr, faghèra

References

• “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.

Anagrams

• fugas