faba

From Latin faba.

faba f

1. bean

From Latin faba.

faba f (plural fabes)

1. bean

• faba de mayu
• fabada
• fabes con amasueles

• Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaβa̝/

faba f (plural fabas)

1. bean

   Synonym: feixón

2. bean plant
3. inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses

• “fava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “faba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “faba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “faba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

faba (plural fabas)

1. bean

From Proto-Italic *fafā[1], from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Faliscan haba (“bean”), and more distantly with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), English bean, Russian боб (bob, “bean”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäːbä]

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?
     (See the Latin far; see Cardea for more on the Kalendae fabariae, or Bean-Kalends.)

2. horse bean
3. a small object with the shape of a bean.

First-declension noun.

• “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

faba f (plural fabas)

1. Obsolete spelling of haba

• “faba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014