fabulor Latin · revision 33041

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=la for}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfaː.bʊ.ɫɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfaː.bu.lor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ Plautus and Terence have the infinitive ''fābulārier''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Active forms such as ''fābulem'' occur in manuscripts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fābula|-or|t1=talk, story]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) and that noun comes from [[m|la|for|t=to speak]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius has someone said to know how to chat.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to talk, especially familiarly, to converse or chat, and with an object or direct speech to say: in Plautus, asked what he is hearing, someone answers, what I am telling you.^(OLD 2012) Plautus and Terence have the old infinitive ''fābulārier'', and manuscripts have active forms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Apuleius uses it of inventing a story or fable.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein distinguishes [[garrio|alt=garrīre]], talking from fondness for talk, ''fābulārī'', talk with regard to its emptiness, and [[blatero|alt=blaterāre]], with regard to its foolishness.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of chatting.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of making up a fable.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To talk, [[m|en|converse]], [[m|en|chat]]; to say.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make up a story, invent a [[m|en|fable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fābulātiō]]

+ * [[fābulātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fabula|alt=fābula]]

+ * [[for]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}