fabella
English
Etymology
From New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).
Noun
fabella (plural fabellae)
- (anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of fābula.
Noun
fābella f (genitive fābellae); first declension
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
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)
- an anecdote: narratiuncula, fabella (Fin. 5. 15)
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