# fibula
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/
* Rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə

### Noun

fibula (plural fibulae or (obsolete) fibulæ or fibulas)
* 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.
* (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
    Synonym: calf bone

#### Derived terms

* fibular
* fibulate
* fibulectomy
* fibulo-, fibul-
* tibiofibula

#### Related terms

* fibularis

#### Translations
### See also

* peroneal

### References

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fībula. Doublet of the inherited fibbia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.bu.la/
* Rhymes: -ibula
* Hyphenation: fì‧bu‧la

### Noun

fibula f (plural fibule)
* (anatomy) fibula, calf bone
    Synonym: perone

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* bufali

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfiː.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbʊɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfi.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbulä]

### Noun

fībula f (genitive fībulae); first declension
* (literal) clasp, buckle, brooch, pin, latchet, brace
* (transferred sense) connection, bond, fetter
* (surgery)
** surgical instrument for drawing together the lips of a wound
** stitching needle drawn through the prepuce
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#### Inflection

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* confībula
* fībulātōrius
* fībulō
* suffībulum

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Romanian: hiolă (possibly)
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: fibbia
*** →? Venetan: fibia
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: fübia
*** Lombard: fübia, figgia
*** Piedmontese: fübia, fimbria
** Friulian: fiube
** Ladin: fibla
** Venetan: fiuba
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: fibla
* Vulgar Latin:
** *fībella (see there for further descendants)
** *fībulāria
*** Romanian: fiulare
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: fíbula
** → English: fibula
** → French: fibule
** → Galician: fíbula
** → Italian: fibula
** → Portuguese: fíbula
** → Romanian: fibulă
** → Spanish: fíbula

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “figō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 219

### Further reading

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – 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

### Further reading

* “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

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fiˈbula]

### Noun

fibula f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of fibulă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fîbula/
* Hyphenation: fi‧bu‧la

### Noun

fȉbula f (Cyrillic spelling фи̏була)
* (anatomy) fibula, calf bone