fimbria
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Illustration of fimbrial end of the fallopian tube.
See also: fímbria
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
Pronunciation
Noun
fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)
- (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
- (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.
- (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
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
Derived terms
- fimbrial (adjective)
Translations
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): /ˈfim.bri.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/,
Noun
fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension
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
- 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
Noun
fimbria f (plural fimbrias)
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