Fabius
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin Fabius, name of a Patrician Roman gens, from faba (“bean”).
Proper noun
[edit]Fabius
- A male given name from Latin, of historical use in English.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfa.bi.us/, [ˈfäbiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.bi.us/, [ˈfäːbius]
Proper noun
[edit]Fabius m sg (genitive Fabiī or Fabī); second declension
- a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
- Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, a Roman consul
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, a Roman rhetorician
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Fabius |
Genitive | Fabiī Fabī1 |
Dative | Fabiō |
Accusative | Fabium |
Ablative | Fabiō |
Vocative | Fabī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Fabius (feminine Fabia, neuter Fabium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to the gens Fabia.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | Fabius | Fabia | Fabium | Fabiī | Fabiae | Fabia | |
Genitive | Fabiī | Fabiae | Fabiī | Fabiōrum | Fabiārum | Fabiōrum | |
Dative | Fabiō | Fabiō | Fabiīs | ||||
Accusative | Fabium | Fabiam | Fabium | Fabiōs | Fabiās | Fabia | |
Ablative | Fabiō | Fabiā | Fabiō | Fabiīs | |||
Vocative | Fabie | Fabia | Fabium | Fabiī | Fabiae | Fabia |
References
[edit]- “Fabius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Fabius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin adjectives
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- Latin nomina gentilia