Alteration offaenum, showing an early 'rustic' monophthongization of /ae̯/.
fēnum n (genitivefēnī);second declension
- (Classical Latin)hay
Second-declension noun (neuter).
See alsofaenum.
- Balkan Romance:
- Istro-Romanian:fir
- Romanian:fân
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- “fenum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fenum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fenum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “faenum” in volume VI 1, column 165, line 72 in theThesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present