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fable
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin f?bula, from f?r? (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
Pronunciation
- enPR: f??b?l, IPA(key): /?fe?b?l/
- Rhymes: -e?b?l
- Hyphenation: fa?ble
Noun
fable (plural fables)
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- Synonym: morality play
- Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- Old wives' fables.
- Synonym: legend
- Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
Derived terms
- personal fable
- fabulist
Translations
Verb
fable (third-person singular simple present fables, present participle fabling, simple past and past participle fabled)
- (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[1]
- He fables not; I hear the enemy:
- Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.
- 1706, Matthew Prior, “An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen,” stanza 17, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London, 1779, Volume 30, p. 254,[2]
- Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell,
- That wavering Conquest still desires to rove!
- In Marlborough’s camp the goddess knows to dwell:
- Long as the hero’s life remains her love.
- 1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,[3]
- He fables, yet speaks truth.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[1]
- (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, lines 288-292,[4]
- […] err not, that so shall end
- The strife which thou callest evil, but we style
- The strife of glory; which we mean to win,
- Or turn this Heaven itself into the Hell
- Thou fablest […]
- 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, “Cassandra, or, Divination,” [5]
- The Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Cassandra, was by her many shifts and cunning slights still deluded in his Desire […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter II,[6]
- Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess. […]
- Synonyms: make up, invent, feign, devise
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, lines 288-292,[4]
Derived terms
- fabler
Translations
Further reading
- fable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- befal
French
Etymology
From Old French fable, borrowed from Latin fabula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fabl/
Noun
fable f (plural fables)
- fable, story
Synonyms
- conte
- histoire
Related terms
- affabulation
Further reading
- “fable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from f?(r?) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??bl?/
Verb
fable (imperative fabl or fable, present tense fabler, passive fables, simple past and past participle fabla or fablet)
- to fantasize, dream
- fable om suksess
- dream about success
- fable om suksess
Derived terms
- fabel
References
- “fable” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from f?(r?) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??bl?/
Verb
fable (imperative fabl, present tense fablar, simple past and past participle fabla)
- to fantasize, dream
- fable om suksess
- dream about success
- fable om suksess
- to make up (something)
Derived terms
- fabel
References
- “fable” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fabula.
Noun
fable f (oblique plural fables, nominative singular fable, nominative plural fables)
- fable, story
Synonyms
- conte
- estoire
Descendants
- ? Dutch: fabel
- ? English: fable
- French: fable
Spanish
Verb
fable
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fablar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fablar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fablar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fablar.
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account
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?.?ka?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Etymology 1
From Middle English account, acounte, accounten, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin comput? (“to sum up”).
Noun
account (plural accounts)
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
- (banking) A bank account.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- Synonyms: accounting, explanation
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]
- Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation
- 1657, James Howell, Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London
- A laudible account of the city of London.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- Synonyms: membership, registration
- Meronym: username
- (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- Profit; advantage.
Usage notes
- Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.
- Account, narrative, narration, recital are all words applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
- Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; for example, a vivid account of a battle, of a shipwreck, of an anecdote, etc.
- A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; for example, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, the narrative of the film etc.
- Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
- Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; such as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc, a piano recital (played without sheet music), a recital of a poem (learned by heart).
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (akaunto)
- ? Swahili: akaunti
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
Verb
account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)
- To provide explanation.
- (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, III.8:
- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
- To count.
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- accountable
- accountant
Further reading
- account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account at OneLook Dictionary Search
- account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English account.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?u?nt/
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Noun
account n (plural accounts, diminutive accountje n)
- a subscription to an electronic service
Related terms
- accountant
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: akun
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English account. Doublet of conto.
Noun
account m (invariable)
- (computing) account
- Synonym: conto
Further reading
- account in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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