faba

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See also: Faba and fába

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Noun

faba f

  1. bean

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Noun

faba f (plural fabes)

  1. bean

Related terms

References

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

Pronunciation

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

  1. bean

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

Fabas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

Pronunciation

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

  1. bean
    Synonym: feixón
  2. bean plant
  3. inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses

Derived terms

References

  • “fava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “fava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “faba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “faba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “faba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Noun

faba (plural fabas)

  1. bean

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bobъ, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós) and Proto-Germanic *baunō, ultimately likely from a European substrate.

Pronunciation

Noun

faba f (genitive fabae); first declension

  1. bean
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.169–170:
      Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs,
      mixtaque cum calidō sit faba farre, rogās?
      Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,
      and having been mixed with hot bean far, you ask?
  2. horse bean
  3. a small object with the shape of a bean.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative faba fabae
Genitive fabae fabārum
Dative fabae fabīs
Accusative fabam fabās
Ablative fabā fabīs
Vocative faba fabae

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • “faba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “faba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • faba 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)
  • faba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “faba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197

Spanish

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of haba

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