fandus

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fandus

1. conditional of fandi

Future passive participle of for.

fandus (feminine fanda, neuter fandum); first/second-declension participle

1. which is to be spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.293–294:

     [...] temptātūrum aditūs, et quae mollissima fandī
     tempora, quis rēbus dexter modus. [...].

     [Aeneas will look for] approaches he could try, and what [might be] the most gentle times to tell [Dido], whichever way is proper for such matters.

First/second-declension adjective.

• infandus
• nefandus

• “fandus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press