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Latin
Etymology
From faenum + -īle.
Pronunciation
Noun
faenīle n (genitive faenīlis); third declension (in Classical Latin plural only)
- hayloft
c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE,
Virgil,
Georgics 3.318–321:
- Ergō omnī studiō glaciem ventōsque nivālīs,
quō minor est illīs cūrae mortālis egestās,
avertēs, vīctumque ferēs et virgea laetus
pābula, nec tōtā claudēs faenīlia brūmā.- Therefore, the ice and the snowy winds, with all the zeal,
the less human care need,
you shall keep away, and happily bring food and woody
fodder, nor close the hayloft for the entire winter.
- a. 75 CE, Lucilius Junior (uncertain), Aetna 270–272:
- levēs cruciant animōs et corpora causae
horrea utī saturent, tumeant et dōlia mustō,
plēnaque dēsectō surgant faenilīa campō.
- insubstantial concerns torment souls and bodies
that barns be satiated, that casks also swell with wine,
and that full haylofts rise on the reaped field.
- (very rare, glossaries only) a meadow where hay is harvested
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Descendants
See fēnīle; it is this form that the Romance descendants come from.
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