different between femur vs fabella

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?m?(?)/
• Rhymes: -i?m?(r)

Noun

femur (plural femurs or femora)

1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Derived terms

• femoral

Translations

References

• Webster import

Anagrams

• fumer

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin can be found.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe.mur/, [?f?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.mur/, [?f??mur]

Noun

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

1. thigh
2. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
3. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Derived terms

• femor?le

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe?.mur/, [?fe?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.mur/, [?f??mur]

Verb

f?mur

1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

References

• femur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• femur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• femur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French fémur.

Noun

femur n (plural femururi)

1. femur

Declension

English

Etymology

From New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??b?l?/

Noun

fabella (plural fabellae)

1. (anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Latin

Etymology 1

Diminutive of f?bula.

Noun

f?bella f (genitive f?bellae); first declension

1. (short) story, fable, play

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: favella
• Old French: favele
  • ? English: favel
• Polish: fabu?a
• Portuguese: fabela
• Romansch: faveala, faviala
• ? Spanish: fabela

Etymology 2

faba (“bean”) +? -ella. From its bean-like shape and size, in some animals.

Noun

fabella f

1. (anatomy) fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella)

References

• fabella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fabella in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.