Noun: faba
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Genitive
| Singular | fabae |
| Plural | fabārum |
Dative
| Singular | fabae |
| Plural | fabīs |
Accusative
| Singular | fabam |
| Plural | fabās |
Sample Sentences
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Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs, (Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,
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and [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] far, you ask?) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.169–170]
Nouns inflected like faba
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bobъ, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós) and Proto-Germanic *baunō, ultimately likely from a European substrate. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
φακός'.
Verbs referencing "faba"
English Nouns
fabella, Asturian Nouns
faba, Galician Nouns
faba, English Nouns
bean, Spanish Nouns
haba, Catalan Nouns
fava, Italian Nouns
fava, Portuguese Nouns
fava, Portuguese Nouns
favela, Spanish Nouns
habichuela, French Nouns
fève, Ancient Greek Nouns
φακός, Catalan Nouns
fajol, Slovak Nouns
bôb.
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