faba Latin · revision 31928

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *fafā-}}

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfa.ba]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfaː.ba]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''faba''' ''f'' (genitive fabae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*fafā-|t=bean]],^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) the same word as [[xfa|haba|t=bean]], recorded by the grammarian Velius Longus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan finds that no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed: since the Italic, Slavic and Germanic words are alike in form and meaning, they are probably independent borrowings of a European substrate word of the form ⟨*bab-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[prg|babo|t=bean]], [[non|baun|t=bean]], [[goh|bōna|t=bean]] and [[ang|bēan|t=bean]]; [[grc|φακός|tr=phakós|t=lentil]] is farther removed.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Ennius has cranes creeping through the bean field.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the bean plant and its seed, the broad or horse bean;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cato and Varro deal with it as a crop.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid mentions the seven black beans of a rite.^(OLD 2012) With epithets it names other plants: ''faba Aegyptia'', the Egyptian bean or sacred lotus, as in Celsus, and ''faba Graeca''.^(OLD 2012) It also means a small bean-shaped object, a bead or pellet, as the glass bead in Petronius.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) English ''fava'' (1896) came from it through Italian.^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of cranes in the bean field.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato the Elder of beans as a crop.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of a glass bead.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1896 – English [[m|en|fava]] through Italian.^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|bean]] plant; a bean, the [[m|en|broad bean]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With epithets, other plants: ''faba Aegyptia'', the Egyptian bean.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A bean-shaped object, a [[m|en|bead]], pellet.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fabāceus]]

+ * [[fabāginus]]

+ * [[fabālis]]

+ * [[fabārius]]

+ * [[fabātus]]

+ * [[fabulus]]

+ * [[fabālia]]

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fabācia]]

+ * [[fabātārium]]

+ * [[en|bean]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}