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6-letter words (1 found)

FIBULA,

4-letter words (8 found)

ALIF,BAIL,BALU,FAIL,FILA,FLAB,FLUB,LAUF,

3-letter words (13 found)

AIL,ALB,ALF,ALU,AUF,BAL,FAB,FIB,FIL,FLU,FUB,LAB,LIB,

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AB,AI,AL,BA,BI,FA,FU,IF,LA,LI,

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Definitions and meaning of fibula

fibula

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə

Noun

fibula (plural fibulae or (obsolete) fibulæ or fibulas)

  1. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
  2. (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
    Synonym: calf bone

Derived terms

  • fibular
  • fibulate
  • fibulo-, fibul-
  • tibiofibula

Related terms

  • fibularis

Translations

See also

  • peroneal

References

  • “fibula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “fibula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fībula. Doublet of the inherited fibbia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.bu.la/
  • Rhymes: -ibula
  • Hyphenation: fì‧bu‧la

Noun

fibula f (plural fibule)

  1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone
    Synonym: perone

Further reading

  • fibula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • bufali

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of fīgibula, from fīgō (“to fix, fasten, thrust in”) +‎ -bula (instrumental nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbʊɫ̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.bu.la/, [ˈfiːbulä]

Noun

fībula f (genitive fībulae); first declension

  1. (literal) clasp, buckle, brooch, pin, latchet, brace
  2. (transferred sense) connection, bond, fetter
  3. (surgery)
    1. surgical instrument for drawing together the lips of a wound
    2. stitching needle drawn through the prepuce

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1564: “la cintura; la fibbia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fibella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 489

Further reading

  • “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fibula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fibula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fibula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fibula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fiˈbula]

Noun

fibula f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fibulă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fîbula/
  • Hyphenation: fi‧bu‧la

Noun

fȉbula f (Cyrillic spelling фи̏була)

  1. (anatomy) fibula, calf bone

Declension


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