Latin

Adjective

fatuus m ‎(feminine fatua, neuter fatuum); first/second declension

1. foolish, silly, simple

   Ego me ipsum stultum existimo, fatuum esse non opinor.‎ ― I consider myself stupid, not silly.

2. stupid
3. (of food) insipid, tasteless

   Ut sapiant fatuae, fabrorum prandia, betae.‎ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. awkward, clumsy, unwieldy

   Illa bipennem insulsam et fatuam dextra tenebat.‎ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

fatuus m ‎(genitive fatuī); second declension

1. A fool, simpleton, a jester, buffoon, blockhead

   Ita, rogo; paene effregisti, fatue, foribus cardines.‎ ― I do so ask you; you fool, you've almost broken the hinges from off the door.

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• fatua
• fatue
• ignis fatuus

Descendants

• English: fatuous
• French: fade, fada, fat
• Italian: fatuo
• Spanish: fatuo
• Galician: fato
• Asturian: fato

References

• fatuus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fatuus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FATUUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fatuus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• fatuus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

1. ↑ Roberts, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots