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Latin
Etymology
From fāgus (“beech”), suffixed with the unproductive -ineus following Ancient Greek φηγινέος (phēginéos), a variant of φήγινος (phḗginos, “oaken”). Formations such as oleāgineus (“of olives”) may have played a role in reinforcing the ending. A direct borrowing from Ancient Greek is to be excluded on phonological and semantical grounds.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fāgineus (feminine fāginea, neuter fāgineum); first/second-declension adjective
- of beech, beechen
- Synonym: fāgeus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “fagineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fagineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fagineus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- fagineus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “fāgus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 445