The corpus record — Latin

faba

bean

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 9 · 5.75/10k
De Re Coquinaria 7 · 4.46/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 33 · 4.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 94 · 2.37/10k
De Medicina 22 · 2.15/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. faba — de Vaan

faba 'bean' [f. a] (P1.+) Derivatives: fabulus 'bean' (P1.+), fabaginus 'of beans' (Cato)9fabalia 'bean-stalks' (Cato*-), fabalis 'of beans' (Varro+), fabarius 'of/for beans* (Cato+\ fabatus 'made of beans' (Varro*). Pit. *fqfa- 'bean'. It cognates: Fal. haba 'bean' [Velius Longus, 2nd c. AD], IE cognates: OPr. babo 'bean', Ru. bob; OIc. baun, OHG bona> OE bean 'bean' < PGm. *bauno < *bab-no? Farther removed are Gr. … — [de Vaan, s.v. faba, p. 211]

2. făba — Lewis & Short

făba, ae, f.for fag-va, Sanscr. root bhaj-, to divide, share; bhak-tam, food; Gr. fag-ei=n, to eat; cf. fāgus,

I a bean, Vicia faba, Linn.; Gr. ku/amos, more correctly, perh., our horse-bean.

I Prop., Cato, R. R. 35, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 44, 1; Col. 2, 10, 5; Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 117; 19, 8, 40, § 133; 27, 5, 23, § 40: perque fabam repunt (grues) et mollia crura reponunt, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 ed. Vahl.); not eaten by the Pythagoreans, Cic. Div. 1, 30, 62; 2, 58, 119; Hor. S. 2, 6, 63; Gell. 4, 11, 4; and neither to be touched nor named by the Flamen Dialis, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 12; Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 13 Müll.—

B Prov.

1 St. Repperi. Ly. Quid repperisti? St. Non quod pueri clamitant, In faba se repperisse, Plaut. Aul. 5, 11.—

2 Istaec in me cudetur faba, i. e. I shall have to smart for it, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 89 Don.—

3 Tam perit quam extrema faba, in proverbio est, quod ea plerumque aut proteritur aut decerpitur a praetereuntibus, Fest. S. V. TAM, p. 363, 17 Müll.—

II Transf., of things of a similar shape: of grains of wheat, Plin. 18, 10, 21, § 95: faba caprini fimi, goat's dung, id. 19, 12, 60, § 185.—As a measure, Veg. Vet. 3, 12, 3.

3. faba — Walde–Hofmann

faba, -ae f. ,(Sau)bohne (vicia faba L.)*, fal. kaba (LeumannStolz? 135) (seit Enn. und Plaut., rom., ebenso -äceus „aus Bohnen“ seit Pallad.; vgl. -@tus [-äta puis] seit Varro, davon -atüréum n. seit Lamprid.; -äginus, -@lis u, -ärius seit Cato; Demin. -ulus „kleine Bohne“ seit Plt, davon -ulönia Diosc., spätl. fabiola f. bzw. -um n. [nach phaseolus) Meyer-Lübke Ltbl. 1917, 244; aus faba entl. r. gdßa und durch … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. faba, p. 468]

In the wild

6 of 201 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. faba (scan p. 211; entry #505). Root candidates: *fqfa-, *bab-, *fafro-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. faba (scan p. 232; entry #3595).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. faba (scan pp. 468-470; entry #1063). Root candidates: *dha-, *bhabo-, *bhaba-.

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