fabella

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English

Etymology

From New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fəˈbɛlə/
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Noun

fabella (plural fabellae)

  1. (anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Latin

Etymology 1

From fābula +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

Noun

fābella f (genitive fābellae); first declension

  1. Diminutive of fābula (“fable, tale, story”)
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fābella fābellae
Genitive fābellae fābellārum
Dative fābellae fābellīs
Accusative fābellam fābellās
Ablative fābellā fābellīs
Vocative fābella fābellae
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

faba (“bean”) +‎ -ellus. From its bean-like shape and size, in some animals.

Noun

fabella f

  1. (anatomy) fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella)
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fabella fabellae
Genitive fabellae fabellārum
Dative fabellae fabellīs
Accusative fabellam fabellās
Ablative fabellā fabellīs
Vocative fabella fabellae

References

  • “fabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fabella 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)
  • fabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • an anecdote: narratiuncula, fabella (Fin. 5. 15)
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