favola
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- fairy tale, fairy story
- fable
- shaggy-dog story
Etymology
Derived from Latin fābula (narrative, discourse, narration, tale, conversation).
Origin
Latin
fābula
Gloss
narrative, discourse, narration, tale, conversation
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
論
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fabulor Latin
- fabulosus Latin
- fābula Latin
- favoleggiare Italian
- favolista Italian
- favolistica Italian
- fiaba Italian
- fola Italian
- fabla Spanish, Castilian
- fábula Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- fábula Portuguese
- fabel Danish
- fable Old French
- fáball Old Irish
- fala Old Portuguese
- fabla Occitan
- faula Occitan
- *fāðlā Proto-Italic
- fala Asturian
- fabla Old Spanish