fimbria

See also: fímbria

English

Illustration of fimbrial end of the fallopian tube.

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/

Noun

fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)

1. (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
   1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the fallopian tube.

      When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.

   2. (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.

      Synonym: pilus

Translations

anatomy

• Catalan: fímbria f
• Portuguese: fímbria (pt) f

• Spanish: fimbria f

bacteriology

• Catalan: fímbria f
• Finnish: värekarva (fi)

Derived terms

• fimbrial (adjective)

References

• “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “fimbria”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

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Latin

Etymology

Found in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin. From fimbriae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfɪmbriä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfimbriä]

Noun

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)

1. A fringe, border, edge.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fimbria	fimbriae
Genitive	fimbriae	fimbriārum
Dative	fimbriae	fimbriīs
Accusative	fimbriam	fimbriās
Ablative	fimbriā	fimbriīs
Vocative	fimbria	fimbriae

Descendants

Descendants of fimbria in other languages

• → Catalan: fímbria (learned)
• → English: fimbria
• → French: fimbrié (learned)
• Occitan: fimbria, franja, fremnha
• → Old French: fiembre, fimbre, felimbre (learned)
• → Portuguese: fímbria (learned)
• Romanian: frânghie
• → Spanish: fimbria (learned)
• Translingual: fimbri-
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frĭmbĭa
  • Old French: frenge
    • → Middle English: frenge, frang
      • English: fringe
      • Scots: freenge
    • French: frange
      • → Catalan: franja
      • → Italian: frangia
      • → Portuguese: franja
      • → Spanish: franja
    • Norman: frange

References

• “fimbria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “fimbria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fimbria”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfimbɾja/, [ˈfĩm.bɾja]

Noun

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)

1. (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)

Further reading

• “fimbria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014