fames

See also: Fames and famés

English

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Since Pokorny, traditionally derived from a Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”), and connected with affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō, fessus, as well as Old Irish ded- (“to vanish”), Old Norse dási (“slow”), and English daze. However, de Vaan rejects this etymology, considering the forms and semantics as too vague, and leaves the origin open.^[1]

famēs f (genitive famis); third declension

However, the ablative singular always has the ē of the fifth declension: famē.^[2]

> Aromanian: foami (inherited)
> Asturian: fame (inherited)
> Catalan: fam (inherited)
> Dalmatian: fum (inherited)
> Franco-Provençal: fam (inherited)
> Friulian: fan (inherited)
> Gallurese: fami, fammi (inherited)
> Istriot: fan (inherited)
> Istro-Romanian: fome (inherited)
> Italian: fame (inherited)
> Ligurian: fàmme (inherited)
> Lombard: famm (inherited)
> Mirandese: fame (inherited)
> Neapolitan: famme (inherited)
> Old French: fain, faim (inherited)
- > French: faim (inherited)
  - > Louisiana Creole: faim (inherited)
> Old Galician-Portuguese: fame (inherited)
- > Galician: fame (inherited)
- > Portuguese: fome (inherited)
> Old Occitan: fam (inherited)
- > Occitan: fam, (Gascony) hami (inherited)
> Piedmontese: fam (inherited)
> Romagnol: fam (inherited)
> Romanian: foame (inherited)
> Romansch: fom (inherited)
Sardinian:
- > Logudorese: fàmene, fàmine (inherited)
- > Nuorese: fàmine (inherited)
- > Campidanese: fàmini (inherited)
> Sassarese: fammi (inherited)
> Sicilian: fami (inherited)
> Old Spanish: fambre (inherited)
- > Ladino: ambre (inherited)
- > Spanish: hambre (inherited)
> Venetian: fan (inherited)
⇒ Old French: famine
- > Middle French: famine (inherited)
  - > French: famine (inherited)
  - → English: famine

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fatīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 204–205
^ Frederick M. Wheelock, Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors, 3rd ed. (Barnes & Noble, 1963), p. 267; cf. Phaedrus, Fābulae, 4.3.

“fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fames”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fames in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
- to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
- to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
- to be starved to death (as punishment): fame necari
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
- to starve a town into surrender: oppidum fame domare
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239

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fames f pl