fibula

See also: fíbula and fibulă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fībula (“clasp, buckle”).

Noun

Location of the fibula in the skeletal structure of the leg.

Jewelled Germanic fibulae from the 5th century.

fibula (plural fibulas or fibulae or fibulæ)

1. (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone.
2. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.

Synonyms

• calf bone

Derived terms

• fibular

Translations

calf bone — see calf bone

ancient brooch

• Catalan: fíbula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸针 (zh) (xiōngzhēn)

• Esperanto: fibolo
• French: fibule (fr) f
• Georgian: მშვილდსაკინძი (mšvildsaḳinʒi)
• German: Fibel (de) f
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• Ido: fibulo (io)
• Japanese: フィブラ (fibura)
• Korean: 피불라 (pibulla)
• Portuguese: fíbula f
• Russian: фи́була (ru) f (fíbula)
• Spanish: fíbula f

See also

• peroneal

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fībula. Doublet of the inherited fibbia.

Noun

fibula f (plural fibule)

1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone

Synonyms

• perone

Anagrams

• bufali

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Latin

Etymology

From fī(gō) +‎ -bula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbulä]

Noun

fībula f (genitive fībulae); first declension

1. clasp, buckle, brooch

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fībula	fībulae
Genitive	fībulae	fībulārum
Dative	fībulae	fībulīs
Accusative	fībulam	fībulās
Ablative	fībulā	fībulīs
Vocative	fībula	fībulae

Descendants

• Catalan: fíbula, sivella
• English: fibula
• French: fibule
• Friulian: fiube
• Galician: fíbula, fibela

• Italian: fibula, fibbia
• Portuguese: fíbula, fiulare, fivela
• Romanian: fibulă, hiolă
• Spanish: fíbula, hebilla
• Venetian: fibia, fiuba

References

• “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fibula 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)
• fibula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fibula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fibula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fîbula/
• Hyphenation: fi‧bu‧la

Noun

fȉbula f (Cyrillic spelling фи̏була)

1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone

Declension

Declension of fibula

	singular	plural
nominative	fibula	fibule
genitive	fibule	fibula
dative	fibuli	fibulama
accusative	fibulu	fibule
vocative	fibulo	fibule
locative	fibuli	fibulama
instrumental	fibulom	fibulama