fabella

English

Etymology

From New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).

Noun

fabella (plural fabellae)

1. (anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of fābula.

Noun

fābella f (genitive fābellae); first declension

1. (short) story, fable, play

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fābella	fābellae
Genitive	fābellae	fābellārum
Dative	fābellae	fābellīs
Accusative	fābellam	fābellās
Ablative	fābellā	fābellīs
Vocative	fābella	fābellae

Descendants

• Italian: favella
• Polish: fabuła
• Portuguese: fabela
• Romansch: faveala, faviala
• Spanish: fabela

References

• “fabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabella 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)
• fabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an anecdote: narratiuncula, fabella (Fin. 5. 15)