faber1
Meaning
- masculineartisan, craftsman, architect, creator, maker, artificer, forger, smith, carpenter
Est ūnus quisque faber ipsæ suæ fortūnæ .
Every one is the maker of his own fortune.Attributed to Appius Claudius Caecus by Sallustius in Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica, I.i.2Nōnne 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,Biblia Sacra, Matthæus 13.55
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quī dūrā māteriā — lignō, ferrō, saxō — opera facit.artifex operisartifex lignī vel ferrīquī lignum aut ferrum fingitopifex, artifex ferrīChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Faber · Opifex · Artifex
Fabri (from favere, fovere,) are such workmen as labor with exertion of bodily strength, carpenters and smiths, χειρώνακτες; opifices such as need mechanical skill and industry, βάναυσοι; artifices such as employ mind and invention in their mechanical functions, τεχνῖται. (v. 329.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | faber | fabrī |
| genitive | fabrī | fabrōrum |
| dative | fabrō | fabrīs |
| accusative | fabrum | fabrōs |
| ablative | fabrō | fabrīs |
| vocative | faber | fabrī |
jam ut censoriae tabulae loquuntur, fabrum et procum audeo dicere, non fabrorum et procorum, Cic. Or. 46, 156: fabrum, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 8, C, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 24, 4; Plin. 34, 1, 1, § 1 al.: fabrorum, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 54; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147; Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 182 al.), m. Sanscr. root bha-, gleam, shine; Gr. φημί, say, φαίνω, show; cf. for, a worker in wood, stone, metal, etc., a forger, smith, artificer, carpenter, joiner (syn.: artifex, opifex, operarius), τέκτων. tamen ego me Phidiam esse mallem, quam vel optimum fabrum tignarium, carpenter, Cic. Brut. 73, 257; so, tignarius, id. Rep. 2, 22; Inscr. Orell. 4087; cf.: fabros tignarios dicimus non eos duntaxat, qui tigna dolant, sed omnes, qui aedificant, Dig. 50, 16, 235: ut fortunati sunt fabri ferrarii, Qui apud carbones assident! blacksmiths, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 47: fabrum aerariorum conlegium, copper-smiths, braziers, Plin. 34, 1, 1, § 1; cf.: marmoris aut eboris fabros aut aeris amavit, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 96: † eburarius, Inscr. ap. Spon. Misc. p. 222: † intestinarius, one who does the fine carved work in wood for the interior of a building, a joiner, Inscr. Orell. 4182: † a Corinthiis, ib. 4181: † oculariarius, one who made silver eyes for statues, ib. 4185.—ut arcessatur faber, ut istas compedis tibi adimam, Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 29: cogito, utrum me dicam medicum ducere an fabrum, id. Men. 5, 3, 11: hominem pro fabro aut pro tectore emere, Cic. Planc. 25, 62: fabri ad aedificandam rem publicam, work-people, workmen, laborers, id. Fam. 9, 2, 5; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48: ex legionibus fabros delegit, the workmen belonging to the army, Caes. B. G. 5, 11, 3; whose overseer was called praefectus fabrūm, id. B. C. 1, 24, 4: His fabris crescunt patrimonia, i. e. these smiths know how to add to their patrimonies, Juv. 14, 116: faber volans, i. e. Icarus, id. 1, 54.— Prov.: faber est quisque fortunae suae, every man is the maker of his own fortune, Appius ap. Sall. de Republ. Ordin. 1.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Uncertain. The term could derive from Proto-Italic *faβros, from earlier *θaβros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰHbʰ-ró-s. However, there are no clear cognates. Within Italic, Paelignian faber is probably a borrowing from Latin. Outside of Italic, connections have been proposed with Gothic gadaban (“to happen”), Proto-Slavic *dobrъ, Lithuanian dabà (“habit, character”), Armenian դարբին (darbin, “smith”), and English daft, deft. The LIV ultimately reconstructs a PIE root of the shape *dʰeHbʰ-. Alternatively, the EIEC reconstructs a PIE form *dʰabʰros (“craftsman”). Beekes has also suggested that, if all of the proposed cognates are to be unified under a single pre-form, they could be explained a substrate root *dʰabʰ-. De Vaan, however, considers the Germanic and Balto-Slavic cognates semantically uncompelling. Martirosyan still opts for a substrate explanation when specifically considering only the Latin and Armenian forms.
- Sardinianfrau
- Sardinianfrabbu
- Sardinianfravu
- Occitanfabre
- Occitanfaure
- Frenchfèvrefrom Old French fevre
- Gasconhaurefrom Occitan fabre
- Gasconhaurfrom Occitan fabre
- Old Catalanfabre
- Franco-Provençalfâvrofrom Franco-Provençal favro
- Franco-Provençalfâvrefrom Franco-Provençal favro
- Portuguesefabro
- Spanishfabro
- Paelignianfaber
- Romanianfaur
- Aromanianfavru
- Aromanianfavur
- Italianfabbro
- Dalmatianfavro
- Sicilianfabbrufrom Italian fabbro
- Sicilianfrabbufrom Italian fabbro
- Venetanfravo
- Venetanfavaro
- Venetanfavro
- Friulianfari
- Ladinfaure
- Romanshfavar
- Emilianfrâb
- Romagnolfabre
- Romagnolfàbar