fagea

Latin

Etymology

From an ellipsis of materia fāgea (“beech timber”), feminine of the adjective fāgeus, derived from fāgus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ɡe.a]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.d͡ʒe.a]

Noun

fāgea f (genitive fāgeae); first declension

(Late Latin) beech (tree of genus Fagus)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fāgea	fāgeae
genitive	fāgeae	fāgeārum
dative	fāgeae	fāgeīs
accusative	fāgeam	fāgeās
ablative	fāgeā	fāgeīs
vocative	fāgea	fāgeae

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Tuscan: faggia (northern)
Padanian:
- Emilian: fasa, fagia
- Lombard: fagia (Bergamasque)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: faya
- Catalan: faja
- Occitan:
  - ⇒ Gascon: hajòla
  - Limousin: faja
  - Vivaro-Alpine: faja, fagea ⇒ faiòla
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: faya
- Old Galician-Portuguese: faia
  - Galician: faia
  - Portuguese: faia
- Spanish: haya

References

"fagea", 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)