fagus

From Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”), same source as English beech, Russian бузина́ (buziná, “elder”), Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós, “oak”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ɡʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ɡus]

fāgus f (genitive fāgī); second declension

1. beech tree
   • Vergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1)

     Sub tegmine fagi.

     Under the shade of a beech tree.

Second-declension noun.

• “fagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fagus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• fugas