Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Faba f

1. A taxonomic genus within the Cryptoniscidae family – hyperparasites of rhizocephalid barnacles.
2. (obsolete) The genus Vicia of beans.

Derived terms

from obsolete sense

• Fabaceae (family)
• Fabales (order)
• Fabavirus

Asturian

Noun

faba f ‎(plural fabes)

1. bean

Related terms

• fabada
• fabes con amasueles

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin faba.

Noun

faba f ‎(plural fabas)

1. bean
2. bean plant

Synonyms

• (bean): feixón

Latin

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ba/

Noun

faba f ‎(genitive fabae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fabācia
• fabālia
• fabātārium

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “faba”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.