fabulosus Latin · revision 9310

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Horace|origins=la fābula}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [faː.bʊˈɫoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [fa.buˈlɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fābulōsus''' (feminine fābulōsa, neuter fābulōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[fābula]] “story, tale” with the suffix [[-ōsus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Horace, “celebrated in legend”: ''loca fābulōsus lambit Hydaspēs'' “places washed by the storied Hydaspes”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Horace 65–8 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant celebrated in legend or story, as in Horace, and resembling an invented tale, incredible, as in Petronius; in Pliny the Elder it meant unhistorical, fictitious, mythical.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note it is poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ It survives in Italian ''favoloso'' and Spanish ''fabuloso'', and gave [[en|fabulous]] in the early 15th century, “mythical, legendary”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of the incredible.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''fabulous'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Famous in legend, storied.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Incredible, fabled.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Fictitious, mythical, [[m|en|fabulous]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fābulōsitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fābula]]

+ * [[en|fabulous]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}