farnus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos (“birch”). Compare Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá, “Himalayan birch”) (Betula utilis), English birch and Latin fraxinus (“ash tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfar.nus/, [ˈfärnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfar.nus/, [ˈfärnus]

Noun

farnus f (genitive farnī); second declension

1. kind of oak

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	farnus	farnī
Genitive	farnī	farnōrum
Dative	farnō	farnīs
Accusative	farnum	farnōs
Ablative	farnō	farnīs
Vocative	farne	farnī

Descendants

• Italian: farnia

References

• “farnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• farnus 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)