fenum

Latin

Etymology

Alteration of faenum, showing an early 'rustic' monophthongization of /ae̯/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.num/, [ˈfeːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.num/, [ˈfɛːnum]

Noun

fēnum n (genitive fēnī); second declension

1. (Classical Latin) hay

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēnum	fēna
Genitive	fēnī	fēnōrum
Dative	fēnō	fēnīs
Accusative	fēnum	fēna
Ablative	fēnō	fēnīs
Vocative	fēnum	fēna

Descendants

See also faenum.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Istro-Romanian: fir
  • Romanian: fân
• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: frenu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: fen
  • Piedmontese: fen, feng, fegn
  • Romansch: fain, fagn, fein
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: fen
  • French: foin
  • Norman: fain
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fenc, fe
  • Occitan: fen
  • Gascon: hen, hien
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: feno
  • Asturian: fenu, ḥenu (eastern)
    • →? Portuguese: feno
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fẽo
    • Galician: feo
  • Spanish: heno

References

• “fenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “faenum” in volume VI 1, column 165, line 72 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present