faber

faber

1. comparative form of fabe: more fabe

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ber]

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.

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. artisan, craftsman, architect, creator, maker, artificer, forger, smith, carpenter

   Synonyms: opifex, artifex

   • Attributed to Appius Claudius Caecus by Sallustius in Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica, I.i.2

     Est ūnus quisque faber ipsæ suæ fortūnæ .

     Every one is the maker of his own fortune.

   • Biblia Sacra, Matthæus 13.55:

     Nōnne hic est fabrī fīlius? Nōnne ejus māter ea est quæ Marīa vocātur? Ejusque frātrēs Jācōbus, & Jōsēs, & Simōn, & Jūdās,

     Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't it his mother who is called Mary? And his brothers Jacob, & Joses, & Simon, & Judas,

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

• fabrica
• fabrīlis

• ferrārius

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

1. workmanlike, skilful, ingenious

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

• fabrē

Uncertain, possibly transferred from Etymology 1.^[1]

faber m (genitive fabrī); second declension

1. the dory, a sunfish

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

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