faenile

• fēnīle

From faenum +‎ -īle.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fae̯ˈniː.le/, [fäe̯ˈniːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈni.le/, [feˈniːle]

faenīle n (genitive faenīlis); third declension (in Classical Latin plural only)

1. hayloft
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.318–321:

     Ergō omnī studiō glaciem ventōsque nivālīs,
     quō minor est illīs cūrae mortālis egestās,
     avertēs, vīctumque ferēs et virgea laetus
     pābula, nec tōtā claudēs faenīlia brūmā.

     Therefore, the ice and the snowy winds, with all the zeal,
     the less human care [the animals] need,
     you shall keep away, and happily bring food and woody
     fodder, nor close the hayloft for the entire winter.

   • a. 75 CE, Lucilius Junior (uncertain), Aetna 270–272:

     […] levēs cruciant animōs et corpora causae
     horrea utī saturent, tumeant et dōlia mustō,
     plēnaque dēsectō surgant faenilīa campō.

     […] insubstantial concerns torment souls and bodies
     that barns be satiated, that casks also swell with wine,
     and that full haylofts rise on the reaped field.

2. (very rare, glossaries only) a meadow where hay is harvested
   • 1888, Georg Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum II, Teubner, page 478, line 6:

     χορτοκόπιον faenīle faenī saecium

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

See fēnīle; it is this form that the Romance descendants come from.

• “faenile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• faenile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “faenīle” in volume VI 1, column 165, line 6 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present