different between fabella vs flabella

English

Etymology

From New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??b?l?/

Noun

fabella (plural fabellae)

1. (anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Latin

Etymology 1

Diminutive of f?bula.

Noun

f?bella f (genitive f?bellae); first declension

1. (short) story, fable, play

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: favella
• Old French: favele
  • ? English: favel
• Polish: fabu?a
• Portuguese: fabela
• Romansch: faveala, faviala
• ? Spanish: fabela

Etymology 2

faba (“bean”) +? -ella. From its bean-like shape and size, in some animals.

Noun

fabella f

1. (anatomy) fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella)

References

• fabella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fabella in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

flabella

1. plural of flabellum

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lla

Verb

flabella

1. inflection of flabellare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative