fimbria
See also: fímbria
English
Illustration of fimbrial end of the fallopian tube.
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/
Noun
fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)
- (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
- When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.
- (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.
- Synonym: pilus
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
Derived terms
- fimbrial (adjective)
Translations
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References
- “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “fimbria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Latin
Etymology
Found in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin. From fimbriae.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfɪmbriä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfimbriä]
Noun
fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)
- A fringe, border, edge.
Inflection
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fimbria | fimbriae |
| Genitive | fimbriae | fimbriārum |
| Dative | fimbriae | fimbriīs |
| Accusative | fimbriam | fimbriās |
| Ablative | fimbriā | fimbriīs |
| Vocative | fimbria | fimbriae |
Descendants
Descendants of fimbria in other languages
- → Catalan: fímbria (learned)
- → English: fimbria
- → French: fimbrié (learned)
- Occitan: fimbria, franja, fremnha
- → Old French: fiembre, fimbre, felimbre (learned)
- → Portuguese: fímbria (learned)
- Romanian: frânghie
- → Spanish: fimbria (learned)
- Translingual: fimbri-
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frĭmbĭa
- Old French: frenge
- → Middle English: frenge, frang
- English: fringe
- Scots: freenge
- French: frange
- → Catalan: franja
- → Italian: frangia
- → Portuguese: franja
- → Spanish: franja
- Norman: frange
- → Middle English: frenge, frang
- Old French: frenge
References
- “fimbria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “fimbria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fimbria”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfimbɾja/ [ˈfĩm.bɾja]
- Rhymes: -imbɾja
- Syllabification: fim‧bria
Noun
fimbria f (plural fimbrias)
- (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)
Further reading
- “fimbria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014