different between fimbria vs pilus

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 pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pile.

Noun

pilus (plural pili)

1. A hair.
2. (microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
3. (biochemistry) A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions

Synonyms

• (hairlike appendage): fimbria

See also

• flagellum
• pilus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pulis, pulis, pusil

Dutch

Noun

pilus m (plural pili)

1. pilus (bacterial appendage)

Estonian

Noun

pilus

1. inessive singular of pilu

Latin

Etymology 1

From the Proto-Indo-European *pil- (“one string of hair”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi.lus/, [?p????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.lus/, [?pi?lus]

Noun

pilus m (genitive pil?); second declension

1. (anatomy) A hair.
2. (figuratively) An insignificant amount; iota; least amount

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From p?lum (“javelin”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi?.lus/, [?pi????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.lus/, [?pi?lus]

Noun

p?lus m (genitive p?l?); second declension

1. A maniple of the tri?ri?; a reserve company of veteran soldiers.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• p?lum

Derived terms

• pr?mus p?lus

References

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