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FaberEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From the French occupational surname meaning "smith" or "ironworker," variant of Favre, both from Latin faber (“craftsman”). Doublet of Dobry.
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization- faberLatin · n5957
faber brī (gen plur. brūm; rarely brōrum, C.), m Source etymology: 2 FAC- , a workman, maker, forger, smith, artificer, carpenter, joiner : Marmoris aut eboris aut aeris, H.: hominem pro fabro emere: fabri ad aedificanda
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faber bra, brum, adj. Source etymology: 2 FAC- , constructive, workmanlike : ars, architecture , O.
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