fabulor

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fābula (narrative, conversation) +‎ -or, from for (speak, say).

Pronunciation

Verb

fābulor (present infinitive fābulārī or fābulārier, perfect active fābulātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. to chat, converse, talk
    Synonym: garriō
  2. to make up a story

Conjugation

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

(See also fābellor.)

  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • >? Dalmatian: favular, favlur, faular
    • Italian: favolare, >? fiabbare, favoleggiare
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • ⇒ Old Emilian: fablança (Bologna)
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Occitan: faular (hapax), faulejar
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: fablar
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: falar (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Leonese: falar
    • Old Spanish: fablar (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

References

Further reading

  • fabulor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fabulor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fabulor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • mythology: fabulae, historia fabularis