"faba" meaning in Latin

See faba in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈfa.ba] [Classical-Latin], [ˈfaː.ba] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *fabā Latin faba From Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bobъ, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós) and Proto-Germanic *baunō, ultimately likely from a European substrate. Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:inh|itc-pro:*fabā<t:bean>|id=bean|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Italic *fabā Latin faba, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*fabā|t=bean}} Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”), {{cog|sla-pro|*bobъ}} Proto-Slavic *bobъ, {{cog|grc|φακός}} Ancient Greek φακός (phakós), {{cog|gem-pro|*baunō}} Proto-Germanic *baunō, {{der|la|qfa-sub}} substrate Head templates: {{la-noun|faba<1>}} faba f (genitive fabae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|faba<1>}} Forms: fabae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], faba [nominative, singular], fabae [nominative, plural], fabae [genitive, singular], fabārum [genitive, plural], fabae [dative, singular], fabīs [dative, plural], fabam [accusative, singular], fabās [accusative, plural], fabā [ablative, singular], fabīs [ablative, plural], faba [singular, vocative], fabae [plural, vocative]
  1. bean Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-faba-la-noun-s~pV-Y~P Categories (other): Legumes, Latin entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs, Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with etymology trees Disambiguation of Latin entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs: 58 26 16 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 53 25 22 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 62 12 26 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 58 23 19 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 54 26 21
  2. horse bean Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-faba-la-noun-3lI5s4-s Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 32 46 22
  3. a small object with the shape of a bean. Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-faba-la-noun-AM-uyxLK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fabāceus, fabāginus, fabālia, fabālis, fabārius, fabātus, Fabius [possibly], fabulus Related terms: fabācia, fabālia, fabātārium

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabāceus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabāginus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabālia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabālis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabārius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabātus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "Fabius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabulus"
    }
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      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "lang_code": "rup",
      "word": "fauã"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "lang_code": "rup",
      "word": "favã"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "faba"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dalmatian",
      "lang_code": "dlm",
      "word": "fua"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "fabo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Franc-Comtois",
      "lang_code": "roa-fcm",
      "word": "fave"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "fève"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "lang_code": "fur",
      "word": "fave"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "faba"
    },
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          "raw_tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "fava"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Kabyle",
      "lang_code": "kab",
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "lang_code": "rm",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "lang_code": "rm",
      "word": "feva"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "lang_code": "sc",
      "word": "faa"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "lang_code": "sc",
      "word": "faba"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "lang_code": "sc",
      "word": "fae"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "lang_code": "sc",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
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      "word": "fava"
    },
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      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "fafa"
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          ],
          "word": "aba"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "haba"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Tashelhit",
      "lang_code": "shi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
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      "lang": "Translingual",
      "lang_code": "mul",
      "word": "Faba"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "lang_code": "vec",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Breton",
              "lang_code": "br",
              "word": "fav"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Middle Breton",
          "lang_code": "xbm",
          "word": "faff"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "lang_code": "kw",
          "word": "fav"
        },
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Welsh",
              "lang_code": "cy",
              "word": "ffa"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Middle Welsh",
          "lang_code": "wlm",
          "word": "ffa"
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "*fav"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "itc-pro:*fabā<t:bean>",
        "id": "bean",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Italic *fabā\nLatin faba",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "*bobъ"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*baunō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *baunō",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "qfa-sub"
      },
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "faba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "faba<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "faba f (genitive fabae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "faba<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabācia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabālia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fabātārium"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Legumes",
          "orig": "la:Legumes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 26 16",
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 25 22",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 12 26",
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        {
          "_dis": "58 23 19",
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        {
          "_dis": "54 26 21",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,\nand [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] far, you ask?",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.169–170",
          "roman": "mixtaque cum calidō sit faba farre, rogās?",
          "text": "Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs,",
          "translation": "Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,\nand [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] far, you ask?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bean"
      ],
      "id": "en-faba-la-noun-s~pV-Y~P",
      "links": [
        [
          "bean",
          "bean"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 46 22",
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "horse bean"
      ],
      "id": "en-faba-la-noun-3lI5s4-s",
      "links": [
        [
          "horse bean",
          "horse bean"
        ]
      ],
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        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a small object with the shape of a bean."
      ],
      "id": "en-faba-la-noun-AM-uyxLK",
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ba]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfaː.ba]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "faba"
}
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    "Latin entries with etymology trees",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Latin first declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from substrate languages",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages using etymon with no ID",
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "fabāceus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabāginus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabālia"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabālis"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabātus"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "Fabius"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabulus"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "lang_code": "rup",
      "word": "fauã"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "lang_code": "rup",
      "word": "favã"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "faba"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "fava"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dalmatian",
      "lang_code": "dlm",
      "word": "fua"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "fabo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Franc-Comtois",
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      "word": "fave"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "fève"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "lang_code": "fur",
      "word": "fave"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
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      "word": "faba"
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    {
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    },
    {
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      "word": "fava"
    },
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
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      "word": "fava"
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      "lang": "Romansch",
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    },
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      "lang": "Sardinian",
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      "word": "faa"
    },
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      "lang": "Sardinian",
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      "word": "faba"
    },
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      "lang": "Sardinian",
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      "lang": "Sardinian",
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      "lang": "Sicilian",
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      "word": "fava"
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      "lang": "Sicilian",
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      "word": "fafa"
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        }
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      "lang": "Translingual",
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      "lang": "Venetan",
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      "word": "fava"
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          "word": "fav"
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              "word": "ffa"
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          "word": "ffa"
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      ],
      "word": "*fav"
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        "tree": "1"
      },
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      "name": "etymon"
    },
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        "1": "la",
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    },
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      },
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  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Italic *fabā\nLatin faba\nFrom Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bobъ, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós) and Proto-Germanic *baunō, ultimately likely from a European substrate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
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    {
      "form": "faba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "fabārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "faba<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "faba f (genitive fabae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "faba<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fabācia"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabālia"
    },
    {
      "word": "fabātārium"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "la:Legumes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,\nand [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] far, you ask?",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.169–170",
          "roman": "mixtaque cum calidō sit faba farre, rogās?",
          "text": "Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs,",
          "translation": "Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,\nand [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] far, you ask?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bean"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bean",
          "bean"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "horse bean"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "horse bean",
          "horse bean"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a small object with the shape of a bean."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ba]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfaː.ba]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "faba"
}

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