Etruscan Glossary F

Compilation and translations from French, Italian and Latin
by Rick Mc Callister and Silvia Mc Callister-Castillo ©1999



fabulonia "Hyosciamus (plant)" [az96]

faca "to cleft" [az96]

face "unlucky, unlucky event" [az96]
faci (plural) "unlucky, anguished" [az96]

fahtei "type of gift" [gm97]

fal "to be malformed, dangerous" [az96]
falas "to be malformed, dangerous" [az96]
falals, falas "error, deviation" [az96]
falsti "lacking (plural)" [az96]

falar Etruscan toponym [mp68: 372]

*falatu, fala "sky" [g/lb83, mp68: 368, pa, dep]
fala "scaffolding" Latin of Etruscan origin [lrp 48]
faltu "pallium (cloak), paludamentum (military cloak)" [az96]
faluthras "protected" [az96]
see falau, falaS, falS-ti, falza-thi, falica, faluthras [mp68];
Latin gloss falado, falando (Verrio Flacco) [g/lb83, mp68: 368, pa]
< *pel "to cover" [az96]

falerii Etruscan town named after family [lrp 57]

falica "(one who) drops" [az96]

familia "household" Latin of Etruscan origin [bc 199]
see Oscan famelo [bc 199]

fan-, fani-, fan-u-Se, fan-u-Sei, fan-eri, fan-iri "to consecrate, holy act" [g/lb83, mp68: 409, pa, dep]
fanu "chapel, sacred place" [az96, pa, dep]
see Latin fânum [g/lb83, mp68, pa, dep]

fanuse "to manifest, disclose" [az96]

fapi male name [az96]
"talkative" [az96]
see Latin Fabius [mp68: 371] [az96]

far- "to prepare" [am91]
farice "(to be) prepared" [az96]
faru "(one who) prepares, provides?" [az96]
see Latin pare- "to set, prepare, provide" [az96]

farsi "hostility" [az96]

farth- "to give birth, generate" [am91]
farthan deity corresponding to Latin Genius [mc91: 135]
"generation, birth, creation, product" [az96]
farthana "offspring, fetus" [az96]
farthnaxe "was generated, begotten" [am91, az96, mc91]
see Latin partus "giving birth" [az96]

faS "fasces" [az96]

faSe, faS-i, faS-is, faS-iS "type of sacrifice" [mp68, pa, dep, gzb]

fase, fasei "revelation" [az96]
faseic "to reveal" [az96]
fasi "to reveal oneself" [az96]

fasle, faSena "type of vessel" [am91, mp68, pa]
see Greek pássô [am91]

fasta "acute" [az96]
fastntru "acute, (one who) sharpens, whets" [az96]

faSte "obliged, linked" [az96]

fasti, fastia name [mc91: 50]
"acute, fine" [az96]

fatel "league, association" [az96]

fatuni "to weary, fatigue, vex, importune" [az96]
see Latin fatigans "wearying" [az96]

faun "Faunus" [az96]

favi, favi-ti, favin "ditch, grave, temple vault" [g/lb83, mp68: 369, dep, pa]
see Latin favissa, favisa "a place reserved for votive objects next to a sanctuary" [g/lb83, mp68: 369, dep, pa]

favin "to favor" [az96]
faviti "favorable" [az96]
see Latin favere "to favor, help, support" [az96]

februus god of the underworld and purification; February was named after him [EM]

felce male name [g/lb85: 162]
felci family name [g/lb85: 162]

felequ "turned (on the lathe)" [am91]

feli "due, cost, payment" [az96]

felmu, vhelmu "(one who) touches" > "(one who) perceives" [az96]

felsina "Bologna (town)" [djh 14]
felsna, felsnas male name [g/lb85: 166, mc91: 142]
"from Bologna/Felsina?" [rmcc]

feluske family name [g/lb83]

felzneal "marriageable, nubilis" < "covering, shawl" [az96]
< falt- [az96]

ferclite "tight, intricate, woven" [az96]

feri porod "door behind an empty space" [az96]

ferine "bristling, sharp" [az96]

feronia Etruscan goddess of fire and fertility [smoe, EM]
see Latin Feronia goddess of springs and woods [smoe, EM]

ferrum "iron" Latin of Etruscan origin [rc 19]

fes "to make accounts, assure" [az96]

fetiu, fethiu "cave dweller" [az96]

fira "hostility" [az96]
firin "hostile" [az96]

fise "faith" [az96]
see Latin fides "faith" [az96]

fivan "enemy, adversary" [az96]

flanax "haruspex" [az96]

flenzna "flattery?" [az96]
see Latin blanditia "flattery" [az96]

fler, fler-S "sacred statue, offering, sacrifice" [cb, v, g/lb83, mc91: 150]
"animal useful for offering" [gm97]
fler, flere, flerxva "to inflate, bladder, proturbance" [az96]
flere, flere-s, flere-S, flereri "divinity" [mp68]
"divinity, god" [g/lb83, gzb]
flereri "sacred statues" [g/lb83 81];
"to inflate, make grow" [az96]
fleres, flereS "bronze (statue)" [az96]
"statue" [g/lb83]
flerthrce "verb based on fler, flere" [mp68]
"satisfied" [am91]
flerxva "ceremony, sacrifice [g/lb83, pa]
group of sacred statues or offerings" [g/lb83]
flerxvetra "sacrifices (locative)" [mc91: 150]

Flexuntes (equites century) Latin of Etruscan origin [lrp 48, mp68: 369]

flezr- "abundance" [az96]
see plethora "abundance" [az96]

fnestra [lrp 48]
see Latin fenestra "window" [lrp 48]

frast "intellect, sense" [az96]

fraucni, frauni "benign, sweet, soft" [az96]

fremiru "artisan" [az96]

frentinate "thresher, thrasher" [az96]

frontac, frnthac "fulguriator (lightning augur)" [am91, az96, pa, dep]
related to town of Ferento? [mp68]
see Greek brontê [g/lb83]

fufluna, pupluna "Poplonia (town)" [am91, djh 14, g/lb83, mc91: 48]
see Latin Populônia [djh 14, g/lb83, mc91: 48]

fufluns "Bacchus, Dionysus, Liber"; god of vegetation, vitality and merriment, son of earth-goddess Semia [EM, az96, cb, djh 95, mc91: 53, mp68: 251]
see Latin populus "people, town" [g/lb83]

fulinusn- "base of support?" [az96]

fulinuSna demon [mp68: 407]

fulni "(one who) withers, putrefies" [az96]
fulu male name "withering, rot, putrefaction" [az96]
fuluna "(one who) withers, putrefies" [az96]

fulum- source of Latin fullo [mp68: 369]

fulumxva "splendor" > "famous (man)" [az96]
fuluve-, hvuluve, pulumxva, vhulve, vhuluena "splendid, shining" [az96]

furthan "genius" (spirit) [pa]

furthce "has executed" [az96]

fusle "to solicit, provoke?" [az96]

fuSle (unknown) [mp68: 406]



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