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

"Serve him right" sums up the one view, "De te fabula" the other.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Even this, the fabula tabernaria, or comedy of low life, gradually melted away before the continuous competition of the shows which so moved the spleen of Terence—the pantomimists, the jugglers, the gladiators.

From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

The well-known characters of the fabula Atellana are retained, as is seen from the titles.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

Nor will posterity like Browning's manners,—the dig in the ribs, the personal application, and de te fabula of most of his talking.

From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman

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 W. Y. Sellar

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

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

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 Harold Edgeworth Butler

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 Charles Thomas Cruttwell

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 Harold Edgeworth Butler

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