fabula

American  

[fab-yuh-luh] / ˈfæb jə lə /

noun

fabulae, plural fabulas plural

1. a story or tale, especially a fanciful one or a folk tale.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• fabular
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• fabulae
  plural
• fabulas
  plural

Example Sentences

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fabula fabulae fabulas

One legacy of this fourth season is that comedy nerds of the future, looking back on the puzzles of it, will all have to learn to talk smartly about fabula and syuzhet.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2013

Another early form of dramatic art was the "fabula Atellana," which was adapted from the neighbouring tribe of Oscans, and which possessed a simple plot and stock characters.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

The stories are certainly more impressive than the proverbs and wise saws which many of them were meant to illustrate, without always saying, haec fabula docet.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Tragedy proper had been replaced on the Roman stage by the saltica fabula, in which the pantomimus executed a mimetic dance illustrating a libretto sung by a chorus.

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

It abounds with excellent moral reflections, and the same may be said of it with equal justice as of the Captives:— ‘Ad pudicos mores facta est hæc fabula.’

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

Many of these salticae fabulae must have been mere adaptations of existing tragedies.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

The intenser passions and emotions were not banished from the stage, but survived in the salticae fabulae and a peculiar species of dramatic recitation.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

There still remain the fabulae Atellanae, so called from Atella, an Oscan town of Campania, and often mentioned as Osci Ludi.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

But both fabulae palliatae and togatae, that is to say, comedies representing Greek and Roman life respectively, continued to be acted on the public stage.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

The later writers of the fabulae togatae seem for the most part to have reproduced the life and personages of the provincial towns in Italy.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

As early as the 8th century fabliaux must have existed, since the faithful are forbidden to take pleasure in these fabulas inanes by the Paenitentiale of Egbert.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various