filix

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“henbane”) + -ix, a suffix akin to -ex found in other plant names (compare cārex (“sedge”), rumex (“sorrel”)). De Vaan posits that -ix is early, not a result of vowel assimilation at the Latin stage. Cognate to Welsh bele, Russian белена́ (belená), Czech blín, Middle Dutch bilse, Old English belene, German Bilsenkraut all meaning "henbane".

Pronunciation

Noun

filix f (genitive filicis); third declension

  1. fern

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative filix filicēs
Genitive filicis filicum
Dative filicī filicibus
Accusative filicem filicēs
Ablative filice filicibus
Vocative filix filicēs

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Aromanian: fearicã
  • Galician: felgo, felga
  • Interlingua: filice
  • Italian: felce
  • Neapolitan: felece
  • Portuguese: felga
  • Romanian: ferigă
  • Romansch: felisch
  • Sardinian: filiche, filighe, filixi, fibixi, fixibi
  • Sicilian: fìlici
  • Venetian: féłese, féles, félse
  • Walloon: fetchire
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *filicaria
    • Catalan: falguera
    • French: fougère
    • Occitan: falguièra
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: felgueyra
  • ⇒ Late Latin: filicicula

References
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “filix”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading
  • “filix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “filix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • filix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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