fabula

From Latin fabula (“story”). Doublet of fable.

fabula (plural fabulae)

1. (narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.

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• Homophones: fabulas, fabulât

fabula

1. third-person singular past historic of fabuler

Borrowed from Latin fābula. Doublet of favola, fiaba, and fola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.la/
• Rhymes: -abula
• Hyphenation: fà‧bu‧la

fabula f (plural fabulae)

1. (literature, film studies) fabula

• fabula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bufala

From for, fā- (“speak, say”) +‎ -bula (instrument noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.bu.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.la/,

fābula f (genitive fābulae); first declension

1. discourse, narrative
2. a fable, tale, story
3. a poem, play
4. concern, matter
5. romance

First-declension noun.

• “fabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabula 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)
• fabula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be the talk of the town, a scandal: fabulam fieri
    
  • mythology: fabulae, historia fabularis
    
  • to pass from myth to history: ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus
    
  • a writer of fables: scriptor fabularum
    
  • the piece; the play: fabula, ludus scaenicus
    
  • to study a piece, of the actor); to get a piece played, rehearse it: fabulam docere (διδάσκειν) (of the writer) (opp. fabulam discere
    
  • to act a play (said of the actors): fabulam agere
    
  • to bring out a play, put it on the stage (used of the man who finds the money): fabulam edere
    
  • to produce a play (of the writer): fabulam dare
    
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    
  • a piece is a failure, falls flat: fabula cadit
    
  • the Antigone: tragoedia or fabula Antigona (not Antigona trag. or fab.)
    
  • a narrative, tale, story: narratio, fabula
    
  • this fable teaches us (without nos): haec fabula docet
    
• fabula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “fabula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from French fabuler.

a fabula (third-person singular present fabulează, past participle fabulat) 1st conj.

1. to fabulate

fabula

1. inflection of fabular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative