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Latin
Etymology
From for (“to speak”) + -cundus. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fācundus (feminine fācunda, neuter fācundum); first/second-declension adjective
- eloquent, fluent, that speaks with ease
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.101–102:
- nōndum trādiderat victās victōribus artēs
Graecia, fācundum sed male forte genus- Not yet had the vanquished arts been handed over to the victors –
Greece: an eloquent but not very brave people.
(Ovid, whose own Metamorphoses appropriated Greek myth and poetic tradition, acknowledges an artistic debt with faint praise – and an insult!)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Spanish: Sahagún (toponym; < Sanctus Facundus)
- Borrowings:
References
- “facundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “facundus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.