fibril

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra. Doublet of fibrilla. Compare fibre.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /faɪbɹ(ə)l/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

fibril (plural fibrils)

1. A fine fibre or filament.
2. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.

Derived terms

• fibrillar
• fibrilliform
• interfibrillar
• macrofibril
• microfibril

 

Translations

fine fibre or filament

• Dutch: fibril (nl)
• French: fibrille (fr) f
• Norwegian: fibrill (no) m

fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants

• French: fibrille (fr) f
• Greek: ινίδιο (el) n (inídio)
• Norwegian: fibrill (no) m

Indonesian

Noun

fibril (first-person possessive fibrilku, second-person possessive fibrilmu, third-person possessive fibrilnya)

1. fibril

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin fibrilla, a diminutive of Latin fibra (“fibre, filament”).

Noun

fibril f (genitive singular fibrile, nominative plural fibrilí)

1. fibril

Declension

Declension of fibril

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative fibril fibrilí Vocative a fhibril a fhibrilí Genitive fibrile fibrilí Dative fibril fibrilí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fhibril na fibrilí Genitive na fibrile na bhfibrilí Dative leis an bhfibril don fhibril leis na fibrilí

Derived terms

• dífhibriliú (“defibrillation”)
• dífhibrileoir (“defibrillator”)
• néaraifibril

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fibril	fhibril	bhfibril
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fibril”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “fibril”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024