fimbria

See also: fímbria

English

Illustration of fimbrial end of the fallopian tube.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin 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

Derived terms

• fimbrial (adjective)

Translations

anatomy

• Bulgarian: фимбрия f (fimbrija)
• Catalan: fímbria (ca) f
• Portuguese: fímbria (pt) f
• Spanish: fimbria f

bacteriology

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: fímbria (ca) f
• Finnish: värekarva (fi)

Further reading

• “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fimbria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɪm.bri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfim.bri.a]

Noun

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension

1. Alternative form of fimbriae: a fringe, border, edge

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fimbria	fimbriae
genitive	fimbriae	fimbriārum
dative	fimbriae	fimbriīs
accusative	fimbriam	fimbriās
ablative	fimbriā	fimbriīs
vocative	fimbria	fimbriae

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: fímbria (learned)
• → English: fimbria
• → French: fimbrié (learned)
• Occitan: fimbria, franja, fremnha
• → Old French: fiembre, fimbre, felimbre (learned)
• → Portuguese: fímbria (learned)
• → Spanish: fimbria (learned)
• Translingual: fimbri-
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frĭmbĭa
• Old Francoprovençal: *frengi
  • Franco-Provençal: frengi
  • Old French: frenge
    • French: frange
      • → Catalan: franja
      • → Italian: frangia
      • → Portuguese: franja
      • → Spanish: franja
    • Norman: frange
    • → Middle Dutch: fringe, frange, fraenge
      • Dutch: franje
        • → Sranan Tongo: franya
          • → Saramaccan: faándja
      • → Middle High German: franze
        • German: Franse
    • → Middle English: frenge, frang
      • English: fringe
      • Scots: freenge
    • → Sicilian: frinza
• Romanian: frâmbie, frânghie

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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfimbɾja/ [ˈfĩm.bɾja]
• Rhymes: -imbɾja
• Syllabification: fim‧bria

Noun

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)

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

Further reading

• “fimbria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10