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[ˈfa.βju] · Portuguese (Portugal)
01 / Meaning & origin
Fábio is a masculine given name documented in Portuguese and Danish. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Fabius.
From Latin Fabius.
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04 / Through time
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Fabio— “bean grower”
The great Fabian gens was old Latin, and was said by Pliny to be so called from their having been the first to cultivate the bean, _faba_, while others say the true form was _fodius_, or _fovius_, from their having invented the digging of pits, _foveæ_, for wolves, a proceeding rather in character with the wary patient disposition displayed by the greatest man of the race, Quintus Fabius Maximus, whose agnomen of Cunctator so well describes the policy that wasted away the…
The great Fabian gens was old Latin, and was said by Pliny to be so called from their having been the first to cultivate the bean, _faba_, while others say the true form was _fodius_, or _fovius_, from their having invented the digging of pits, _foveæ_, for wolves, a proceeding rather in character with the wary patient disposition displayed by the greatest man of the race, Quintus Fabius Maximus, whose agnomen of Cunctator so well describes the policy that wasted away the forces of the Carthaginian invader. Fabio has been occasionally a modern Italian name; Fabiola is the diminutive of Fabia; Fabianus the adoptive augmentation, whence the occasional French Fabien, and, more strange to record, the Lithuanian Pobjus.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter III (Nomina), Section VII (Cornelius, &c) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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