Fabius

Latin Fabius, name of a Patrician Roman gens, from faba (“bean”).

Fabius

1. A male given name from Latin, of historical use in English.

• Fabia
• Fabian

From faba (“bean”) + -ius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.bi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.bi.us]

Fabius m sg (genitive Fabiī or Fabī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, surnamed Cunctator, a Roman statesman and general
   2. Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, a Roman consul
   3. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, a Roman rhetorician

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Fabia
• Fabiānus

Fabius (feminine Fabia, neuter Fabium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the gens Fabia.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “Fabius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Fabius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.