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 Latin) 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 beech 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
• *fāgīna
• fāgineus
• fāginus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: fag
  • Megleno-Romanian: fag
  • Romanian: fag
• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: fagu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: fò
  • Friulian: fau
  • Ligurian: fò
  • Lombard: fo
  • Piedmontese: fò
  • Romansch: fau, fo
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: fo
  • Oïl:
    • Old French: fau, fou, fou, fau
      • Franc-Comtois: fô
      • Gallo: faeu
      • Norman: fau (Jersey)
      • ⇒ French: fouet
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: fau, favo (most dialects)

    Belsetán: faus

    Benasqués: fago

    Sobrarbe: fago

  • Catalan: fau (northwestern and Ribagorçan)
  • Occitan: fau (most dialects)

    Gascon: hau, hac

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fagu, fau
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fāgārius
  • Dalmatian: faguor
  • Venetan: fagaro, faghèr, faghèra
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Basque: pago
  • → Welsh: ffaw ⇒ ffawydd
• Translingual: Fagus

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