faber
See also: Faber
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ber/, [ˈfäbɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ber/, [ˈfäːber]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *faβros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“to fashion, fit”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *dobrъ, Lithuanian dabà (“habit, character”), Armenian դարբին (darbin, “smith”), English daft, deft.
Noun
faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension
- artisan, craftsman, architect, creator, maker, artificer, forger, smith
- Synonyms: opifex, artifex
- (Paraphrase) Attributed to Appius Claudius Caecus by Sallustius in Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica, I.i.2
- Faber est quisque fortunae suae.
- Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
- Faber est quisque fortunae suae.
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | faber | fabrī |
| Genitive | fabrī | fabrōrum |
| Dative | fabrō | fabrīs |
| Accusative | fabrum | fabrōs |
| Ablative | fabrō | fabrīs |
| Vocative | faber | fabrī |
Derived terms
- fabrica
- fabrīlis
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: favru, favur
- Romanian: faur
- Dalmatian:
- favro
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: fabbro
- →? Sicilian: fabbru, frabbu
- Italian: fabbro
- Padanian:
- Friulian: fari
- Ladin: faure
- Romagnol: fabre, fàbar
- Romansch: favar
- Venetian: fravo, favaro, favro
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Francoprovençal: favro, fevro
- Franco-Provençal: fâvro, fâvre
- Old French: fevre
- French: fèvre (dated)
- Old Francoprovençal: favro, fevro
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Occitan: fabre, faure
- Gascon: haure, haur
- Old Catalan: fabre
- Occitan: fabre, faure
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: frau, frabbu, fravu (medieval)
- Borrowings:
- → Portuguese: fabro
- → Spanish: fabro
See also
- ferrārius
Adjective
faber (feminine fabra, neuter fabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- workmanlike, skilful, ingenious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | faber | fabra | fabrum | fabrī | fabrae | fabra | |
| Genitive | fabrī | fabrae | fabrī | fabrōrum | fabrārum | fabrōrum | |
| Dative | fabrō | fabrō | fabrīs | ||||
| Accusative | fabrum | fabram | fabrum | fabrōs | fabrās | fabra | |
| Ablative | fabrō | fabrā | fabrō | fabrīs | |||
| Vocative | faber | fabra | fabrum | fabrī | fabrae | fabra | |
Derived terms
- fabrē
Etymology 2
Uncertain, possibly transferred from Etymology 1.[1]
Noun
faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension
- the dory, a sunfish
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | faber | fabrī |
| Genitive | fabrī | fabrōrum |
| Dative | fabrō | fabrīs |
| Accusative | fabrum | fabrōs |
| Ablative | fabrō | fabrīs |
| Vocative | faber | fabrī |
References
- “faber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “faber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “faber”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- faber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “faber”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 341
- “fabbro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
- “faber³” on page 664/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)