Where does “fabulare” come from?
fabulare (Italian) comes from Latin fābulor, from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
fabulare (Italian): to converse, to talk
Definitions
- to converse, to talk
Ancestry of “fabulare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | fābulor | to chat, converse, talk |
| 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 |