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Yes. The word fimbriae is a Scrabble US word. The word fimbriae is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word fimbriae is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

FIMBRIAE,

7-letter words (1 found)

FIMBRIA,

6-letter words (2 found)

BARMIE,FERBAM,

5-letter words (24 found)

ABRIM,AFIRE,AIMER,AMBER,BARFI,BRAME,BREAM,BRIEF,EMBAR,ERBIA,FERIA,FERMI,FIBER,FIBRE,FIRIE,FRAIM,FRAME,IAMBI,IMARI,IMBAR,MAIRE,MBIRA,RAMIE,RIMAE,

4-letter words (48 found)

ABER,ABRI,AMIE,AMIR,BARE,BARF,BARM,BEAM,BEAR,BEMA,BERM,BIER,BIMA,BRAE,BREI,BRIE,BRIM,EMIR,FAIR,FAME,FARE,FARM,FEAR,FERM,FIAR,FIER,FIRE,FIRM,FRAB,FRAE,FRIB,IAMB,MABE,MAIR,MARE,MERI,MIRE,MIRI,RABI,RAMI,REAM,REFI,REIF,RIBA,RIEM,RIFE,RIMA,RIME,

3-letter words (40 found)

AIM,AIR,AME,AMI,ARB,ARE,ARF,ARM,BAE,BAM,BAR,BRA,EAR,ERA,ERF,ERM,FAB,FAE,FAR,FEM,FER,FIB,FIE,FIR,FRA,IRE,MAE,MAR,MIB,MIR,RAI,RAM,REB,REF,REI,REM,RIA,RIB,RIF,RIM,

2-letter words (19 found)

AB,AE,AI,AM,AR,BA,BE,BI,EA,EF,EM,ER,FA,FE,IF,MA,ME,MI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 136 words from fimbriae according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fimbriae

fimbriae

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪm.bɹi.i/

Noun

fimbriae

  1. plural of fimbria

Latin

Etymology

Unclear. Maybe from a Proto-Indo-European root common to fīlum (“thread, yarn”) and fibra (“fibre”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfim.bri.ae̯/, [ˈfɪmbriäe̯]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfim.bri.e/, [ˈfimbrie]

Noun

fimbriae f pl (genitive fimbriārum); first declension (plural only)

  1. Fibres, threads, shreds, fibrous part, fringe.

Inflection

First-declension noun, plural only.

Derived terms

  • fimbriātus (adjective)

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *frimbia
    • Old French: frenge, fringe (see there for further descendants)
      • → Middle English: frenge, frang
        • English: fringe

Noun

fimbriae f

  1. inflection of fimbria:
    1. genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/vocative plural

References

  • “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fimbriae 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)
  • fimbriae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fimbriae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fimbriae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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