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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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sage
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?d?/
- Rhymes: -e?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Adjective
sage (comparative sager, superlative sagest)
- Wise.
- (obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
Synonyms
- (wise): See Thesaurus:wise
- (grave): See Thesaurus:serious
Translations
Noun
sage (plural sages)
- A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
Synonyms
- (wise person): See Thesaurus:sage
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- rishi
- maharishi
Etymology 2
From Middle English sauge, from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia, from salvus (“healthy”), see safe.
Noun
sage (uncountable)
- The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
- Any plant in the genus Salvia
- Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- salvia
Further reading
- Salvia officinalis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Salvia officinalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Japanese sage, from Japanese ??? (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.
Pronunciation
- Etymologically /s???/, but often /se?d?/ due to its English homograph.
Interjection
sage
- (Internet slang) Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.
Related terms
- age
Verb
sage (third-person singular simple present sages, present participle saging, simple past and past participle saged)
- (Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.
Derived terms
- polite sage
Usage notes
- This word is specific to imageboards. The original purpose of sage is to not bump a thread if one deems another's (often OP's) own post to be of little value.
Anagrams
- Sega, ages, geas, sega
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- san, son (Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?za???/
Verb
sage (third-person singular present tense sät, past tense sat or sät, past participle jesat or jesät)
- (Ripuarian) to say; to tell
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch saghe, from Old Dutch *saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek?-.
Pronunciation
Noun
sage f (plural sagen)
- story of heraldry and valor, a saga.
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sakeda.
Adjective
sage (genitive sageda, partitive sagedat)
- frequent
Declension
French
Etymology
From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius from the Classical Latin verb sapi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Adjective
sage (plural sages)
- (of a person) wise: prudent, cautious, and judicious
- (of a woman) Chaste, modest, irreproachable in conduct
- (of a child) Good, well-behaved, not naughty
Derived terms
- sage comme une image
- sage-femme
Noun
sage m or f (plural sages)
- A person who is prudent, cautious, and judicious
- A sage (person)
Further reading
- “sage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ages, âges, âgés
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?za???/
Verb
sage
- inflection of sagen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Hausa
Verb
sag? (grade 4)
- to become stiff or paralyzed
Latin
Adjective
s?ge
- vocative masculine singular of s?gus
Noun
sage m
- singular vocative of sagus
Noun
sage n
- singular vocative of sagum
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from sapi?. Some forms have been altered on the basis of other words with forms in -a- and -au-.
Alternative forms
- sauge, sawge
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa?d?(?)/
Noun
sage (plural sages)
- A sage; a person who serves as a fount of wisdom and knowledge.
Descendants
- English: sage
- Scots: sage
References
- “s??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
Adjective
sage
- Sage, considered, well thought-out.
- Learned, schooled, educated; having much knowledge.
Descendants
- English: sage
- Scots: sage
References
- “s??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French sauge.
Noun
sage
- Alternative form of sauge
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from Latin sapi?, sapere (“to taste; to discern; to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”).
Adjective
sage m or f
- (Jersey) wise
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
sage (imperative sag, present tense sager, simple past saga or saget or sagde, past participle saga or saget or sagd, present participle sagende)
- to saw (cut something with a saw)
Related terms
- sag (noun)
References
- “sage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sapius from the Classical Latin verb sapi?.
Adjective
sage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sage)
- wise (having wisdom)
Descendants
- English: sage
- French: sage
- Italian: saggio
Sathmar Swabian
Etymology
From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?.
Verb
sage
- to say
References
- Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)
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