fabula

American  

[fab-yuh-luh] / ˈfæb yə lə /

noun

plural

fabulae, fabulas

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

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Other Word Forms

• fabular adjective

Example Sentences

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

In The Virginians he is less attentive to dramatic propriety; he begins again to turn aside and lecture us, in the midst of his tale, upon the text of De te fabula narratur.

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.

This method became with him almost a trick of style, and his readers learn to look for the hoec fabula docet at the end as a matter of course.

From Initial Studies in American Letters by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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

De te fabula does not apply here, my dear friend; for you will show me more indulgence than I have skill to demand.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian