fibula

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Jewelled Germanic fibulae (sense 1) from the 5th century.

Location of the fibula (sense 2) in the skeletal structure of the leg.

Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə

fibula (plural fibulae or (obsolete) fibulæ or fibulas)

1. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
   • 1949, N. P. Toll, “Fibulae”, in Teresa G. Frisch, N. P. Toll, edited by M[ikhail] I[vanovich] Rostoftzeff, A. R. Bellinger, F. E. Brown, N. P. Toll, and C. B. Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Part IV. The Bronze Objects: Fascicle 1. Pierced Bronzes, Enameled Bronzes, and Fibulae, number Final Report IV, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, Bow Fibulae, page 56:

     Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.

2. (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.

   Synonym: calf bone

• fibular
• fibulate
• fibulo-, fibul-
• tibiofibula

• fibularis

• peroneal

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

Borrowed from Latin fībula. Doublet of the inherited fibbia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.bu.la/
• Rhymes: -ibula
• Hyphenation: fì‧bu‧la

fibula f (plural fibule)

1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone

   Synonym: perone

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

• bufali

Syncopic form of *fīvibula,^[1] from fīvō (“to fix, fasten, thrust in”, archaic form of fīgō) +‎ -bula (instrumental nominal suffix).

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

fībula f (genitive fībulae); first declension

1. (literal) clasp, buckle, brooch, pin, latchet, brace
2. (transferred sense) connection, bond, fetter
3. (surgery)
   1. surgical instrument for drawing together the lips of a wound
   2. stitching needle drawn through the prepuce

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First-declension noun.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1564: “la cintura; la fibbia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fibella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 489

• “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

• IPA^(key):

fibula f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fibulă

Borrowed from Latin fibula.

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

fȉbula f (Cyrillic spelling фи̏була)

1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone