faber

See also: Faber

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ber/, [ˈfäbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ber/, [ˈfäːber]

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	faber	fabrī
genitive	fabrī	fabrōrum
dative	fabrō	fabrīs
accusative	fabrum	fabrōs
ablative	fabrō	fabrīs
vocative	faber	fabrī

Derived terms

• fabrica
• fabrīlis

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: favru, favur
  • Romanian: faur
• Dalmatian:
  • favro
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fabbro
    • →? Sicilian: fabbru, frabbu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: fari
  • Ladin: faure
  • Romagnol: fabre, fàbar
  • Romansch: favar
  • Venetan: fravo, favaro, favro
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Francoprovençal: favro, fevro
    • Franco-Provençal: fâvro, fâvre
  • Old French: fevre
    • French: fèvre (dated)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: fabre, faure

    Gascon: haure, haur

  • Old Catalan: fabre
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: frau, frabbu, fravu (medieval)
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: fabro
  • → Spanish: fabro

See also

• ferrārius

Adjective

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

1. workmanlike, skilful, ingenious

Declension

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

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	faber	fabra	fabrum		fabrī	fabrae	fabra
genitive	fabrī	fabrae	fabrī		fabrōrum	fabrārum	fabrōrum
dative	fabrō	fabrae	fabrō		fabrīs
accusative	fabrum	fabram	fabrum		fabrōs	fabrās	fabra
ablative	fabrō	fabrā	fabrō		fabrīs
vocative	faber	fabra	fabrum		fabrī	fabrae	fabra

Derived terms

• fabrē

Etymology 2

Uncertain, possibly transferred from Etymology 1.

Noun

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. the dory, a sunfish

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	faber	fabrī
genitive	fabrī	fabrōrum
dative	fabrō	fabrīs
accusative	fabrum	fabrōs
ablative	fabrō	fabrīs
vocative	faber	fabrī

References

• “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, volumes 3: D–F, page 341
• “fabbro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN