Where does “fable” come from?
Fable comes from Old French fable, from Latin fabula, from Latin for, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂- meaning to speak or tell.
fable (English): A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some...
Definitions
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some...
Ancestry of “fable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | fable | fable, story |
| 2 | Latin | fābula | discourse, narrative |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |