different between fabulist vs fabler

English

Etymology

From French fabuliste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæbj?l?st/

Noun

fabulist (plural fabulists)

1. One who writes or tells fables.
2. A liar.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French fabuliste

Noun

fabulist m (plural fabuli?ti)

1. fabulist

Declension

English

Etymology

fable +? -er

Noun

fabler (plural fablers)

1. A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd’s Calendar, London, “Aprill,”^[1]

     […] certain fine fablers and lowd lyers, such as were the Authors of King Arthure the great and such like, who tell many an vnlawfull leasing of the Ladyes of the Lake, that is, the Nymphes.

   • 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Boston: James Munroe, “Wednesday,” p. 279,^[2]

     No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels, entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and dramatists and novelists ourselves.

   • 2015, John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, Chapter 25,

     Clark insisted that Juan Diego was “on the imagination’s side”; Juan Diego was a “fabler, not a memoirist,” Clark said.

Anagrams

• Frable

Danish

Noun

fabler c pl

1. indefinite plural of fabel

Verb

fabler

1. present of fable

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fabler m

1. indefinite plural of fabel