fibula
See also: fíbula and fibulă
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/
- Rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə
Noun
fibula (plural fibulae or (obsolete) fibulæ or fibulas)
- An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
- 1949, N. P. Toll, “Fibulae”, in Teresa G. Frisch; N. P. Toll; M[ikhail] I[vanovich] Rostoftzeff; A. R. Bellinger; F. E. Brown; N. P. Toll; C. B. Welles, editors, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Part IV. The Bronze Objects: Fascicle 1. Pierced Bronzes, Enameled Bronzes, and Fibulae, number Final Report IV, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, OCLC 1112973378, Bow Fibulae, page 56:
- Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.
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- (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
- Synonym: calf bone
Derived terms
- fibular
- fibulate
- fibulo-, fibul-
- tibiofibula
Related terms
- fibularis
Translations
ancient brooch
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calf bone — see calf bone
See also
- peroneal
References
- “fibula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “fibula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fībula. Doublet of the inherited fibbia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.bu.la/
- Rhymes: -ibula
- Hyphenation: fì‧bu‧la
Noun
fibula f (plural fibule)
- (anatomy) fibula, calf bone
- Synonym: perone
Further reading
- fibula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- bufali
Latin
Etymology
Contraction of fīgibula, from fīgō (“to fix, fasten, thrust in”) + -bula (instrumental nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbʊɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbulä]
Noun
fībula f (genitive fībulae); first declension
- (literally) clasp, buckle, brooch, pin, latchet, brace
- (transferred sense) connection, bond, fetter
- (surgery)
- surgical instrument for drawing together the lips of a wound
- stitching needle drawn through the prepuce
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fībula | fībulae |
Genitive | fībulae | fībulārum |
Dative | fībulae | fībulīs |
Accusative | fībulam | fībulās |
Ablative | fībulā | fībulīs |
Vocative | fībula | fībulae |
Derived terms
- confībula
- fībulātōrius
- fībulō
- suffībulum
- *fībella
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: hiolă (possibly)
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: fibbia
- →? Venetian: fibia
- Italian: fibbia
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: fübia
- Lombard: fübia, figgia
- Piedmontese: fübia, fimbria
- Friulian: fiube
- Ladin: fibla
- Venetian: fiuba
- Gallo-Italic:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: fibla
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fībulāria
- Romanian: fiulare
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: fíbula
- → English: fibula
- → French: fibule
- → Galician: fíbula
- → Italian: fibula
- → Portuguese: fíbula
- → Romanian: fibulă
- → Spanish: fíbula
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1564: “la cintura; la fibbia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*fibella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 489
Further reading
- “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fibula 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)
- fibula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “fibula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fibula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fiˈbula]
Noun
fibula f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of fibulă
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fibula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fîbula/
- Hyphenation: fi‧bu‧la
Noun
fȉbula f (Cyrillic spelling фи̏була)
- (anatomy) fibula, calf bone
Declension
Declension of fibula
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | fibula | fibule |
genitive | fibule | fibula |
dative | fibuli | fibulama |
accusative | fibulu | fibule |
vocative | fibulo | fibule |
locative | fibuli | fibulama |
instrumental | fibulom | fibulama |