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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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incident
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incid? (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cid?, the combining form of cad? (“to fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.s?.d?nt/
Noun
incident (plural incidents)
- (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
incident (not comparable)
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- 17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana
- the studies incident to his profession
- 1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman (page 245)
- The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.
- 17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana
- (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
Translations
Catalan
Noun
incident m (plural incidents)
- incident
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French incident, from Old French incident, from Latin incid?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.si?d?nt/
- Hyphenation: in?ci?dent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
incident n (plural incidenten)
- An incident.
- Synonym: voorval
Derived terms
- grensincident
- incidenteel
- schietincident
- steekincident
Descendants
- Afrikaans: insident
- ? Indonesian: insiden
- ? West Frisian: ynsidint
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.si.d??/
Adjective
incident (feminine singular incidente, masculine plural incidents, feminine plural incidentes)
- incidental
- (physics) incident
Noun
incident m (plural incidents)
- incident
Latin
Etymology 1
Form of the verb incid? (“I fall upon”).
Verb
incident
- third-person plural future active indicative of incid?
Etymology 2
Form of the verb inc?d? (“I cut or hew open”).
Verb
inc?dent
- third-person plural future active indicative of inc?d?
Romanian
Etymology
From French incident
Adjective
incident m or n (feminine singular incident?, masculine plural inciden?i, feminine and neuter plural incidente)
- incidental
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /int?s?dent/
- Hyphenation: in?ci?dent
Noun
incìdent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- incident
Declension
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