English
fava
Fava comes from Italian fava ‘fava bean, broad bean’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰabʰ-‘bean’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaba‘bean’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfava‘fava bean, broad bean’
- Englishearliest quotation 2001fava
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰabʰ-‘bean’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaba‘bean’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfava‘fava bean, broad bean’
- Englishearliest quotation 2001fava
Earliest quotation: 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: “When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- ‘bean’
Today it means
noun A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- / fava