Translingual

Fagus sylvatica

Etymology

From Latin fāgus ‎(“beech”).

Proper noun

Fagus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fagaceae – the beech trees.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Fagaceae - family

Derived terms

• (genus): Fagus chienii, Fagus crenata (Japanese beech), Fagus engleriana (Chinese beech), Fagus grandifolia (American beech), Fagus hayatae (Taiwan beech), Fagus japonica (Japanese blue beech), Fagus longipetiolata (South Chinese beech), Fagus lucida (shining beech), Fagus mexicana (Mexican beech} or haya), Fagus orientalis (Oriental beech), Fagus sylvatica (European beech), Fagus × taurica (Crimean beech) (species)
  • Fagus langevinii, Fagus pacifica, Fagus schofieldii (extinct species)

English

Proper noun

Fagus

1. the Celtic god of beech trees

Latin

fāgus (beech tree)

Noun

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.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• fāgeus
• fāgineus
• fāgīnus

Descendants

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fagus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.