# fibra
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈfi.βɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈfi.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfi.bɾa]

### Noun

fibra f (plural fibres)
* fiber, fibre (all senses)
* (materials science) axis
* (figurative) energy, vigour

#### Synonyms

* (filament): filament
* (thread): fil
* (axis): eix
* (vigour): energia, vigor

#### Derived terms

* desfibrar
* fibra alimentària
* fibra de vidre
* fibra neutra
* fibra òptica
* fibrana
* fibrat
* fibrós

#### Related terms

* fibril·la

### References

* ↑ “fibra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “fibra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fibra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fibra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Italian
### Etymology

Derived from Latin fibra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.bra/
* Rhymes: -ibra
* Hyphenation: fì‧bra

### Noun

fibra f (plural fibre)
* fiber, fibre (all senses)

#### Related terms

* fibra a casa
* fibra di vetro
* fibra naturale
* fibra ottica
* fibra sintetica
* fibrato
* fibrilla
* fibrina
* fibro-
* fibroadenoma
* fibroblasto
* fibrocellula
* fibrocemento
* fibrocita
* fibroide
* fibroina
* fibroma
* fibrosarcoma
* fibroscopio
* fibrosi
* fibroso
* fluorofibra
* microfibra

### Anagrams

* fabri

## Latin
### Etymology

Possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), whence findō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfi.bra/, [ˈfɪbrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfi.bra/, [ˈfiːbrä]

### Noun

fibra f (genitive fibrae); first declension
* fibre, filament

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: fibra
* English: fibre, fiber
* French: fibre
* Galician: febra, freba, fibra
* Italian: fibra
* Norwegian Bokmål: fiber
* Norwegian Nynorsk: fiber
* Portuguese: febra, fevra, fêvera, fibra
* Romanian: fibră
* Russian: фибра (fibra)
* Sicilian: fibbra
* Spanish: hebra, fibra

### References

* “fibra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fibra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fibra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “fiber”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibra. Compare the inherited doublet fêvera.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfi.bɾɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfi.bɾɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfi.bɾa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfi.bɾɐ/ [ˈfi.βɾɐ]

### Noun

fibra f (plural fibras)
* fiber / fibre (single elongated piece of material)

#### Related terms

* fibroso

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfibra]

### Noun

fibra f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of fibră

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibra. Compare the inherited doublet hebra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfibɾa/ [ˈfi.β̞ɾa]
* Rhymes: -ibɾa
* Syllabification: fi‧bra

### Noun

fibra f (plural fibras)
* fiber / fibre (a single elongated piece of material)
* fiber / fibre (a material (especially synthetic) in the form of fibers)
* fiber / fibre; dietary fiber / dietary fibre
* (informal) fiberglass / fibreglass

#### Derived terms

* fibra de vidrio
* fibra muscular
* fibra nerviosa
* fibra óptica
* fibrina
* fibroma
* fibromialgia

#### Related terms

* fibrilar
* fibroso
* hebra

### Further reading

* “fibra”, 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