fabel.
a short didactic or moral story, in verse or prose, often featuring animals as personifications of human characteristics and usually ending with a moral; a fable
Meaning & usage
a short didactic or moral story, in verse or prose, often featuring animals as personifications of human characteristics and usually ending with a moral; a fable
a story, tale or narrative
a story, tale or narrative especially an untrue, implausible or unreasonable account; a fabrication, myth or tall tale
the plot or course of events in a narrative text; the manner in which its episodes are connected
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin fābula (“conversation, narrative, tale, fable; play”), literally “something spoken or told”, formed from the verbal stem fā- (“speak, say”) of for (“to speak, say”) and -bula (“instrument- or result-noun suffix”). The verbal element is from Proto-Italic *fāōr (“to speak”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”), an athematic present formed from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”); the suffix continues *-dʰlom (“instrument- or result-noun suffix”). The broad senses of Latin fābula included conversation, report, narrative, story and dramatic work, helping to account for the Norwegian senses “fable”, “story” and “plot”. Doublet of fabula (“fable; narrated sequence of events”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fabel, Danish fabel, Swedish fabel, German Fabel, Dutch fabel, English fable, French fable, Spanish fábula, Portuguese fábula, Italian favola, Polish fabuła and Romanian fabulă (“fable, tale”).
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