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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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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)

  1. Wise.
  2. (obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
Synonyms
  • (wise): See Thesaurus:wise
  • (grave): See Thesaurus:serious
Translations

Noun

sage (plural sages)

  1. 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)

  1. The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
  2. Any plant in the genus Salvia
  3. 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

  1. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. story of heraldry and valor, a saga.

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakeda.

Adjective

sage (genitive sageda, partitive sagedat)

  1. 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)

  1. (of a person) wise: prudent, cautious, and judicious
  2. (of a woman) Chaste, modest, irreproachable in conduct
  3. (of a child) Good, well-behaved, not naughty

Derived terms

  • sage comme une image
  • sage-femme

Noun

sage m or f (plural sages)

  1. A person who is prudent, cautious, and judicious
  2. 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

  1. inflection of sagen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Hausa

Verb

sag? (grade 4)

  1. to become stiff or paralyzed

Latin

Adjective

s?ge

  1. vocative masculine singular of s?gus

Noun

sage m

  1. singular vocative of sagus

Noun

sage n

  1. 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)

  1. 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

  1. Sage, considered, well thought-out.
  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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

  1. to say

References

  • Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

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