Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Faber

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FABER (τέκτων). The name given indiscriminately to any artizan or mechanic who works in hard materials, such as wood, stone, metal, &c., in contradistinction to one who moulds or models in soft substances, like wax or clay, who received the appellation of plastes. It is, consequently, accompanied in most cases by a descriptive epithet which determines the calling of the workman alluded to; as faber tignarius, a carpenter (see the next illustration); faber ferrarius, a blacksmith (see the illustration s. FERRARIUS); faber aeris, marmoris, eboris, a worker in bronze, marble, and ivory; and so on. The Greek term has not quite so extensive a meaning as the Latin one, being rarely applied to a worker in metal, who was expressely called χαλκεύς or σιδηρεύς, though some passages occur where it is so used.