different between fimbria vs fasciola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?m.b?i.?/

Noun

fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)

1. (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
   1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the fallopian tube.

   2. (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.

      Synonym: pilus

Translations

Derived terms

• fimbrial (adjective)

References

• “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “fimbria”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Found in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin. From fimbriae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fim.bri.a/, [?f?mb?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fim.bri.a/, [?fimb?i?]

Noun

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)

1. A fringe, border, edge.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• fimbria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see fimbriae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fimbria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fimbria in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fimbria. Doublet of franja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fimb?ja/, [?f?m.b?ja]

Noun

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)

1. (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)

Further reading

• “fimbria” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fasciola.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??si?.?l.?/, /f??sa?.?l.?/

Noun

fasciola (plural fasciolae)

1. (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
   • 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics

     The last-named portion is shaded with lines to indicate that it retreats; it embraces parts of the fasciola and lyra

References

fasciola in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Etymology

From fascia (“band, bandage, swathe”) +? -ola (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fas?ki.o.la/, [fäs??ki???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa??i.o.la/, [f???i??l?]

Noun

fasciola f (genitive fasciolae); first declension

1. A small bandage of the legs.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• fascia
• fascis

Descendants

• Translingual: Fasciola
• English: fasciole
• English: fasciola
• French: fasciole
• Italian: fasciola
• Portuguese: fascíola
• Romanian: fâ?ioar?

References

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