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faba

See also: Faba and fába

Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin faba.

Noun

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faba f

  1. bean

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin faba.

Noun

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faba f (plural fabes)

  1. bean
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Fala

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfaba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Syllabification: fa‧ba

Noun

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faba f (plural fabas)

  1. bean

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

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Fabas

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

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Noun

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faba f (plural fabas)

  1. bean
    Synonym: feixón
  2. bean plant
  3. inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses

Derived terms

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Interlingua

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Noun

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faba (plural fabas)

  1. bean

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bobъ, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós) and Proto-Germanic *baunō,[1] ultimately likely from a European substrate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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faba f (genitive fabae); first declension

  1. bean
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.169–170:
      Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs,
      mixtaque cum calidō sit faba farre, rogās?
      Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,
      and [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] far, you ask?
  2. horse bean
  3. a small object with the shape of a bean.

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative faba fabae
Genitive fabae fabārum
Dative fabae fabīs
Accusative fabam fabās
Ablative fabā fabīs
Vocative faba fabae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • “faba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “faba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • faba 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)
  • faba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “faba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197

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Noun

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faba f (plural fabas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of haba.

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