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confab
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?nfæb/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?fæb/, /k?n-/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /k?n?fæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
- Hyphenation: con?fab
Etymology 1
Clipping of confabulation, from Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin conf?bul?ti?nem, from c?nf?bul?r? + -ti?nem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); see further at etymology 2.
Noun
confab (countable and uncountable, plural confabs)
- (informal) Clipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).
- Synonym: conflab
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Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of confabulate, from Latin c?nf?bul?r? + English -ate (suffix forming verbs with the sense of acting in the specified manner). C?nf?bul?r? is the present active infinitive of c?nf?bulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + f?bulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from f?bula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)).
Verb
confab (third-person singular simple present confabs, present participle confabbing, simple past and past participle confabbed)
- (intransitive, informal) Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”).
- Synonym: (obsolete, rare) confable
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confabulation
English
Etymology
From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin conf?bul?ti?nem, from c?nf?bul?r? + -ti?nem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). C?nf?bul?r? is the present active infinitive of c?nf?bulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + f?bulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from f?bula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)). The English word is analysable as confabulate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /k?n?fæbj??le???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: con?fab?u?lat?ion
Noun
confabulation (countable and uncountable, plural confabulations)
- A casual conversation; a chat.
- Synonym: confab
- (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
Derived terms
- confab (noun)
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