faber

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ber]

From Proto-Italic *faβros, from earlier *θaβros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ-ro-s, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“to fashion, fit”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *dobrъ, Lithuanian dabà (“habit, character”), Armenian դարբին (darbin, “smith”), English daft, deft.

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. artisan, craftsman, architect, creator, maker, artificer, forger, smith

   Synonyms: opifex, artifex

   • (Paraphrase) Attributed to Appius Claudius Caecus by Sallustius in Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica, I.i.2

     Faber est quisque fortunae suae.

     Every man is the maker of his own fortune.

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• fabrica
• fabrīlis

• ferrārius

faber (feminine fabra, neuter fabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. workmanlike, skilful, ingenious

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• fabrē

Uncertain, possibly transferred from Etymology 1.^[1]

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. the dory, a sunfish

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• “faber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “faber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “faber”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• faber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “faber”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 341
• “fabbro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN