fagus

From Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”), same source as English beech, Russian бузина́ (buziná, “elder”), Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós, “oak”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.ɡus/, [ˈfaː.ɡʊs]

fāgus f (genitive fāgī); second declension

1. beech tree
   • Vergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1)

     Sub tegmine fagi.

     Under the shade of a beach tree.

Second declension.

• fāgeus
• fāgineus
• fāgīnus

• fagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fagus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fagus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• fugas