faenile

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From faenum +‎ -īle.

Pronunciation

Noun

faenīle n (genitive faenīlis); third declension (in Classical Latin plural only)

  1. hayloft
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.318–321:
      Ergō omnī studiō glaciem ventōsque nivālīs,
      quō minor est illīs cūrae mortālis egestās,
      avertēs, vīctumque ferēs et virgea laetus
      pābula, nec tōtā claudēs faenīlia brūmā.
      Therefore, the ice and the snowy winds, with all the zeal,
      the less human care [the animals] need,
      you shall keep away, and happily bring food and woody
      fodder, nor close the hayloft for the entire winter.
    • a. 75 CE, Lucilius Junior (uncertain), Aetna 270–272:
      […] levēs cruciant animōs et corpora causae
      horrea utī saturent, tumeant et dōlia mustō,
      plēnaque dēsectō surgant faenilīa campō.
      […] insubstantial concerns torment souls and bodies
      that barns be satiated, that casks also swell with wine,
      and that full haylofts rise on the reaped field.
  2. (very rare, glossaries only) a meadow where hay is harvested
    • 1888, Georg Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum II, Teubner, page 478, line 6:
      χορτοκόπιον faenīle faenī saecium
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Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

singular plural
nominative faenīle faenīlia
genitive faenīlis faenīlium
dative faenīlī faenīlibus
accusative faenīle faenīlia
ablative faenīlī faenīlibus
vocative faenīle faenīlia

Descendants

See fēnīle.

References

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