fibril

English

Noun

fibril (plural fibrils)

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

Derived terms

• fibrillar
• interfibrillar

Translations

fine fibre or filament

• Dutch: fibril
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: fibrille (fr) f

fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants

• French: fibrille (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ινίδιο (el) n (inídio)

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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