The corpus record — Latin

faginus

faginus · adj

of beech

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

fāgĭnus — Lewis & Short

fāgĭnus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of beech, beechen.

I Adj.: frons, Ov. F. 4, 656: pocula, Verg. E. 3, 37: axis, id. G. 3, 172: arculae, Col. 12, 45, 5.—*

II Subst.: fāgĭ-nus, for fagus, a beech-tree, Calp. Ecl. 2, 59.

In the wild

faginus Vergil, Georgicon 3.172
fagina Vergil, Eclogues 3
Faginus Tibullus, Elegiae 1.10.8
fagina Silius Italicus, Punica 7.188
fagina Martial, Epigrammata 2.43.10
fagino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.12.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.