fagus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”), same source as English beech, Russian бузина́ (buziná, “elder”), Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós, “oak”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfaː.ɡʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfaː.ɡus] === Noun === fāgus f (genitive fāgī); second declension 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 beech tree. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fagus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. === Anagrams === fugas