# fabula
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

fabula (plural fabulae)
* (narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: fabulas, fabulât

### Verb

fabula
* third-person singular past historic of fabuler

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.bu.la/
* Rhymes: -abula
* Hyphenation: fà‧bu‧la

### Noun

fabula f (plural fabulae)
* (literature, film studies) fabula

#### Related terms

* fabulare
* favola

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* bufala

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfaː.bu.la/, [ˈfäːbʊɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfa.bu.la/, [ˈfäːbulä]

### Noun

fābula f (genitive fābulae); first declension
* discourse, narrative
* a fable, tale, story
* a poem, play
* concern, matter
* romance

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* fābella
* fābulāris
* fābulor
* fābulōsus
* lupus in fābulā

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: fabla
* Asturian: fala
* Bourguignon: faule
* Catalan: faula
* Extremaduran: habla, fala
* Friulian: faule, flabe
* → Galician: fábula
* → Icelandic: fabúla, fabúlera
* → Irish: fabhal
* Italian: favola, fiaba, fola
* Leonese: fala
* Ligurian: föa
* Mirandese: fala
* Occitan: faula
* → Old French: fable (see there for further descendants)
* Old Galician-Portuguese: fala
** Fala: fala
** Galician: fala
** Portuguese: fala
* → Polish: fabuła
* → Portuguese: fábula
* Romanian: faulă, fabulă
* → Russian: фа́була (fábula)
* Sardinian: fabula, faba
* Spanish: habla (see there for further descendants)
* → Spanish: fábula
* → Swedish: fabel

### References

* “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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fabuler.

### Verb

a fabula (third-person singular present fabulează, past participle fabulat) 1st conjugation
* to fabulate

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Verb

fabula
* inflection of fabular:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative