出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/01/29 02:41 UTC 版)
From Proto-Italic *fēnom, from earlier *θēnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-no- (“yield”), from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”), with semantic shift "to suckle" > "to bring forth" > "produce, yield" > "hay". See also Latin fecundus (“fertile”).
faenum n (genitive faenī); second declension
The plural is rare, understandably for a mass noun, with four attestations in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, two of them classical.