fabula
See also: fábula, fabuła, fabulă, fabulá, fabúla, and fabułą
English
Etymology
Latin fabula (“story”). Doublet of fable.
Noun
fabula (plural fabulae)
- (narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Homophones: fabulas, fabulât
Verb
fabula
- third-person singular past historic of fabuler
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fābula, from Proto-Italic *fāðlā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂dʰlo-, derived from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.bu.la/
- Rhymes: -abula
- Hyphenation: fà‧bu‧la
Noun
fabula f (plural fabulae)
- (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
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fāðlā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“speak”) + *-dʰleh₂. Equivalent to for (“speak, say”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfaː.bu.la/, [ˈfäːbʊɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.bu.la/, [ˈfäːbulä]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
fābula f (genitive fābulae); first declension
- discourse, narrative
- a fable, tale, story
- a poem, play
- concern, matter
- romance
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | 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
Related terms
- fābulātiō
- fābulātor
- fābulōsē
- fābulōsitās
Descendants
- Aragonese: fabla
- Asturian: fala
- Bourguignon: faule
- Catalan: faula
- Extremaduran: habla, fala
- Friulian: faule, flabe
- → Galician: fábula
- → Icelandic: fabúla, fabúlera
- → Irish: fabhal
- Italian: favola, fiaba, fola
- Leonese: fala
- Ligurian: föa
- Mirandese: fala
- Occitan: faula
- → Old French: fable
- → English: fable
- French: fable
- Old Portuguese: fala
- Fala: fala
- Galician: fala
- Portuguese: fala
- → Polish: fabuła
- → Portuguese: fábula
- → Russian: фа́була (fábula)
- Sardinian: fabula, faba
- Spanish: habla
- → Tagalog: abla
- → Spanish: fábula
- → Swedish: fabel
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’s 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, 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
- to be the talk of the town, a scandal: fabulam fieri
- fabula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, 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
From French fabuler.
Verb
a fabula (third-person singular present fabulează, past participle fabulat) 1st conj.
- 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
Verb
fabula
- inflection of fabular:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative