facundus

Latin

Etymology

From for (“to speak”) ‎ -cundus. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faːˈkun.dus/, [fäːˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈkun.dus/, [fäˈkun̪d̪us]

Adjective

fācundus (feminine fācunda, neuter fācundum); first/second-declension adjective

1. eloquent, fluent, that speaks with ease
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.101–102:

     nōndum trādiderat victās victōribus artēs
     Graecia, fācundum sed male forte genus

     Not yet had the vanquished arts been handed over to the victors –
     Greece: an eloquent but not very brave people.
     (Ovid, whose own Metamorphoses appropriated Greek myth and poetic tradition, acknowledges an artistic debt with faint praise – and an insult!)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fācundus	fācunda	fācundum		fācundī	fācundae	fācunda
genitive	fācundī	fācundae	fācundī		fācundōrum	fācundārum	fācundōrum
dative	fācundō	fācundae	fācundō		fācundīs
accusative	fācundum	fācundam	fācundum		fācundōs	fācundās	fācunda
ablative	fācundō	fācundā	fācundō		fācundīs
vocative	fācunde	fācunda	fācundum		fācundī	fācundae	fācunda

Derived terms

• facundia

Descendants

• ⇒ Spanish: Sahagún (toponym; < Sanctus Facundus)
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: facund
  • → Italian: facondo
  • → Portuguese: facundo
  • → Spanish: facundo

References

• “facundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “facundus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.