Fatuus

From Proto-Italic *Fatowos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). De Vaan proposes a possible derivation from Latin for (“to speak, talk”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tu.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.t̪u.us]

Fātuus m sg (genitive Fātuī); second declension

1. alternative form of Faunus

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Fatuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Fatuus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• Fatuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 205