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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)

  1. 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
  2. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
    • Old wives' fables.
    Synonym: legend
  3. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  4. 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)

  1. (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.
  2. (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

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)

  1. 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)

  1. to fantasize, dream
    fable om suksess
    dream about success

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)

  1. to fantasize, dream
    fable om suksess
    dream about success
  2. 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)

  1. fable, story

Synonyms

  • conte
  • estoire

Descendants

  • ? Dutch: fabel
  • ? English: fable
  • French: fable

Spanish

Verb

fable

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fablar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fablar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fablar.
  4. 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)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
  2. A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
  3. 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)

  1. Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
  2. (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

Translations


Catalan

Noun

incident m (plural incidents)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. incidental
  2. (physics) incident

Noun

incident m (plural incidents)

  1. incident

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb incid? (I fall upon).

Verb

incident

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of incid?

Etymology 2

Form of the verb inc?d? (I cut or hew open).

Verb

inc?dent

  1. 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)

  1. incidental

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /int?s?dent/
  • Hyphenation: in?ci?dent

Noun

incìdent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

  1. incident

Declension

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