fabula

See also: fábula, fabuła, fabulă, fabulá, fabúla, and fabułą

English

Etymology

From Latin fabula (“story”). Doublet of fable.

Noun

fabula (plural fabulae)

1. (narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.by.la/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Homophones: fabulas, fabulât

Verb

fabula

1. third-person singular past historic of fabuler

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fābula. Doublet of favola, fiaba, and fola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.la/
• Rhymes: -abula
• Hyphenation: fà‧bu‧la

Noun

fabula f (plural fabulae)

1. (literature, film studies) fabula

Related terms

• fabulare
• favola

Further reading

• fabula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• bufala

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.bʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.bu.la]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti

Proto-Italic *fāōr

Latin for, fā-

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Latin -bula

Latin fābula

From for, fā- (“to speak, say”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).

Noun

fābula f (genitive fābulae); first declension

1. discourse, narrative
2. a fable, tale, story
3. (drama) a play

   Hyponyms: cōmoedia, tragoedia

4. concern, matter
5. romance

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fābula	fābulae
genitive	fābulae	fābulārum
dative	fābulae	fābulīs
accusative	fābulam	fābulās
ablative	fābulā	fābulīs
vocative	fābula	fābulae

Derived terms

• fābella
• fābulāris
• fābulor
• fābulōsus
• lupus in fābulā

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fabula, faba
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Romanian: faulă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: favola, fiaba, fola
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: faule, flabe
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: föa
  • Piedmontese: fàula
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Bourguignon: faule
  • Catalan: faula
  • Occitan: fabla, faula
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: fabla; fàula (fable)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fala
    • Fala: fala
    • Galician: fala
    • Portuguese: fala
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: fala, fabla, ḥabla
    • Extremaduran: fala, habla
    • Leonese: fala
    • Mirandese: fala
  • Old Spanish: fabla
    • Spanish: habla (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: fjalë (probably)
• → Catalan: fàbula
• → English: fabula
• → Galician: fábula
• → Icelandic: fabúla
• → Irish: fabhal
• → Italian: fabula
• → Old French: fable (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: fabuła
• → Portuguese: fábula
• → Romanian: fabulă
• → Russian: фа́була (fábula)
• → Spanish: fábula
• → Swedish: fabel

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *fabā

Latin faba

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ula

Latin fabula

From faba (“bean”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

fabula f (genitive fabulae); first declension

1. Little bean.

Derived terms

• fābella

References

• “fabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fabula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fabula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be the talk of the town, a scandal: fabulam fieri
    
  • mythology: fabulae, historia fabularis
    
  • to pass from myth to history: ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus
    
  • a writer of fables: scriptor fabularum
    
  • the piece; the play: fabula, ludus scaenicus
    
  • to study a piece, of the actor); to get a piece played, rehearse it: fabulam docere (διδάσκειν) (of the writer) (opp. fabulam discere
    
  • to act a play (said of the actors): fabulam agere
    
  • to bring out a play, put it on the stage (used of the man who finds the money): fabulam edere
    
  • to produce a play (of the writer): fabulam dare
    
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    
  • a piece is a failure, falls flat: fabula cadit
    
  • the Antigone: tragoedia or fabula Antigona (not Antigona trag. or fab.)
    
  • a narrative, tale, story: narratio, fabula
    
  • this fable teaches us (without nos): haec fabula docet
    
• fabula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “fabula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabuler.

Verb

a fabula (third-person singular present fabulează, past participle fabulat) 1st conjugation

1. to fabulate

Conjugation

    conjugation of fabula (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a fabula
gerund			fabulând
past participle			fabulat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	fabulez	fabulezi	fabulează	fabulăm	fabulați	fabulează
	imperfect	fabulam	fabulai	fabula	fabulam	fabulați	fabulau
	simple perfect	fabulai	fabulași	fabulă	fabularăm	fabularăți	fabulară
	pluperfect	fabulasem	fabulaseși	fabulase	fabulaserăm	fabulaserăți	fabulaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să fabulez	să fabulezi	să fabuleze	să fabulăm	să fabulați	să fabuleze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		fabulează			fabulați
	negative		nu fabula			nu fabulați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈbula/ [faˈβ̞u.la]
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: fa‧bu‧la

Verb

fabula

1. inflection of fabular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative