Noun: faber
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | faber |
| Plural | fabrī |
Genitive
| Singular | fabrī |
| Plural | fabrōrum |
Dative
| Singular | fabrō |
| Plural | fabrīs |
Accusative
| Singular | fabrum |
| Plural | fabrōs |
Ablative
| Singular | fabrō |
| Plural | fabrīs |
Vocative
| Singular | faber |
| Plural | fabrī |
Sample Sentences
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Est ūnus quisque faber ipsæ suæ fortūnæ . (Every one is the maker of his own fortune.) [Attributed to Appius Claudius Caecus by Sallustius in Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica, I.i.2]
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Nōnne hic est fabrī fīlius? Nōnne ejus māter ea est quæ Marīa vocātur? Ejusque frātrēs Jācōbus, & Jōsēs, & Simōn, & Jūdās, (Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't it his mother who is called Mary? And his brothers Jacob, & Joses, & Simon, & Judas,) [Biblia Sacra, Matthæus 13.55]
Nouns inflected like faber
rāster,
pīnaster,
oleaster,
deaster,
surdaster,
scomber,
catulaster,
fīliaster,
colober,
coluber,
calamister,
cilōter,
minister,
sēmicaper,
poētaster,
aeger,
faber,
fiber,
liber,
beber, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain. The term could derive from Proto-Italic *faβros, from earlier *θaβros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰHbʰ-ró-s. However, there are no clear cognates. Within Italic, Paelignian faber is probably a borrowing from Latin. Outside of Italic, connections have been proposed with Gothic gadaban (“to happen”), Proto-Slavic *dobrъ, Lithuanian dabà (“habit, character”), Armenian դարբին (darbin, “smith”), and English daft, deft. The LIV ultimately reconstructs a PIE root of the shape *dʰeHbʰ-. Alternatively, the EIEC reconstructs a PIE form *dʰabʰros (“craftsman”). Beekes has also suggested that, if all of the proposed cognates are to be unified under a single pre-form, they could be explained a substrate root *dʰabʰ-. De Vaan, however, considers the Germanic and Balto-Slavic cognates semantically uncompelling. Martirosyan still opts for a substrate explanation when specifically considering only the Latin and Armenian forms.
Verbs referencing "faber"
Italian Nouns
fabbro, Romanian Nouns
făurar, Spanish Nouns
orfebre, French Nouns
orfèvre.
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