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fibre
English
Alternative forms
- fiber (US)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fa?.b?(?)/
- Rhymes: -a?b?(?)
- Hyphenation: fi?bre
- Homophone: fiber
Noun
fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa)
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
- Dietary fibre.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
- Moral strength and resolve.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 2:
- He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 2:
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2?
- (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.
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Translations
Anagrams
- FBIer, brief, fiber
Danish
Noun
fibre c pl
- indefinite plural of fiber
French
Etymology
From Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fib?/
Noun
fibre f (plural fibres)
- fibre
Derived terms
- fibre de verre
- fibre optique
Related terms
Further reading
- “fibre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
fibre f pl
- plural of fibra
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- fibere
- fibrer
Noun
fibre m pl
- indefinite plural of fiber
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fibre]
Noun
fibre f
- indefinite plural of fibr?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of fibr?
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lacertus
English
Alternative forms
- lacert
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /l??s??.t?s/
- Hyphenation: la?cer?tus
Etymology
From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). For the semantics, compare muscle from m?sculus (“little mouse”), derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice.
Noun
lacertus (plural lacerti)
- (anatomy) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.
References
- lacertus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /la?ker.tus/, [??ä?k?rt??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /la?t??er.tus/, [l??t???rt?us]
Etymology 1
Uncertain.
Noun
lacertus m (genitive lacert?, feminine lacerta); second declension
- Alternative form of lacerta: a lizard.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Possibly from lacerta (“lizard”), as musculus derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *l?k- (“leg, q.v.”)
Noun
lacertus m (genitive lacert?); second declension
- (anatomy) The muscular part of the upper arm, including the shoulder, biceps, and triceps.
- (anatomy) The arm.
- (anatomy, Late Latin) A muscle.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Related terms
Further reading
- lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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