The corpus record — Latin

fagus

a beech-tree

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Where it lives

Eclogues 5 · 11.02/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

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

What it meant

1. fāgus — Lewis & Short

fāgus, i (

I nom. plur.: fagūs, Verg. Cul. 139), f. prob. root fag-, to eat; cf. faba and Gr. fhgo/s, fhgw/n; Germ. Buche; Engl. beech, originally a tree with edible fruit, = fhgo/s, a beech-tree: Fagus silvatica, Linn.; Verg. E. 1, 1; Caes. B. G. 5, 12, 5; Plin. 16, 5, 6, § 16 sq.; 24, 5, 9, § 14; Ov. M. 10, 92: felices arbores ... quercus, fagus, etc., Veran. ap. Macr. S. 3, 20, 2 al.

2. fagus — Walde–Hofmann

fagus, -i (-zs Varro) f. (m. Buc. Eins.) „Buche* wet Catull Varro Caes, rom. [z. T. verdrängt durch fügea u. a., Wartburg III 373], ebenso fägeus „Buchen-“ seit Plin., ferner fägina [sc. gläns, seit Marc. med., Wartburg III 368] „Buchecker; Marder“, *fagalia, *faganellus, *fägustellum; vgl. noch füginus aus gr. priyıvog seit Verg., fügineus aus pnyıveog seit Cato, fügatalis [lücus, Iuppiter] seit Varro, Abltg. von … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. fagus, p. 477]

In the wild

fagus Ovid, Fasti 5.522
fagi Persius, Saturae 5.59
Fagi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.6.p1
Fagi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.5.p1
fagis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.9
fagos Vergil, Eclogues 2.3

6 of 47 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. fagus (scan p. 237; entry #3670).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. fagus (scan pp. 477-479; entry #1067). Root candidates: *fa-, *bokön-, *bokjön-.

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