fagineus

Latin

Alternative forms

• fāginus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faːˈɡɪ.ne.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈd͡ʒiː.ne.us]

Adjective

fāgineus (feminine fāginea, neuter fāgineum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of beech, beechen

   Synonym: fāgeus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fāgineus	fāginea	fāgineum		fāgineī	fāgineae	fāginea
genitive	fāgineī	fāgineae	fāgineī		fāgineōrum	fāgineārum	fāgineōrum
dative	fāgineō	fāgineae	fāgineō		fāgineīs
accusative	fāgineum	fāgineam	fāgineum		fāgineōs	fāgineās	fāginea
ablative	fāgineō	fāgineā	fāgineō		fāgineīs
vocative	fāginee	fāginea	fāgineum		fāgineī	fāgineae	fāginea

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