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Used from 13c. in Old French. It represents the first syllable in Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">famulus</span>.</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fa#etymonline_v_32942"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><div id="div-gpt-ad-pc-sp-infeed-1" style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fab" href="/word/fab#etymonline_v_32924">fab<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(adj.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>1957, slang shortening of <a href="/word/fabulous" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of fabulous " class="crossreference notranslate">fabulous</a>.</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fab#etymonline_v_32924"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of Faberge" href="/word/Faberge#etymonline_v_50454">Faberge<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(adj.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>1902 from Peter Carl <span class="foreign notranslate">Faberg茅</span> (1846-1920), Russian jeweler.</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/Faberge#etymonline_v_50454"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of Fabian" href="/word/Fabian#etymonline_v_1051">Fabian<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"socialist," 1884, from <span class="foreign notranslate">Fabian Society,</span> founded in Britain 1884, named for <span class="foreign notranslate">Quintus Fabius Maximus</span> (surnamed <span class="foreign notranslate">Cunctator</span> "the Delayer"), the cautious tactician who opposed Hannibal in the Second Punic War. The Fabians chose the name to draw a distinction between their slow-going tactics and those of anarchists and communists. The Latin gens name possibly is from <span class="foreign notranslate">faba</span> "a bean" (see <a href="/word/bean#etymonline_v_8202" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of bean " class="crossreference notranslate">bean</a> (n.)).</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/Fabian#etymonline_v_1051"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fabled" href="/word/fabled#etymonline_v_32943">fabled<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(adj.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>c. 1600, "unreal, invented," past-participle adjective from <span class="foreign notranslate">fable</span> (v.) "to tell tales" (late 14c.), from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">fabler</span> "tell, narrate; chatter, boast," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">fabulari</span>, from <span class="foreign notranslate">fabula</span> (see <a href="/word/fable" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of fable " class="crossreference notranslate">fable</a>). Meaning "celebrated in fable" is from 1706.</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fabled#etymonline_v_32943"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="5022190299" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fable" href="/word/fable#etymonline_v_1052">fable<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>c. 1300, "falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense," from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">fable</span> "story, fable, tale; drama, play, fiction; lie, falsehood" (12c.), from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">fabula</span> "story, story with a lesson, tale, narrative, account; the common talk, news," literally "that which is told," from <span class="foreign notranslate">fari</span> "speak, tell," from PIE root <a href="/word/*bha-#etymonline_v_52548" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *bha- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*bha-</a> (2) "to speak, tell, say."</p> <p>Restricted sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from the popularity of Aesop's tales. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"].</p> <blockquote> The fable which is naturally and truly composed, so as to satisfy the imagination, ere it addresses the understanding, beautiful though strange as a wild-flower, is to the wise man an apothegm, and admits of his most generous interpretation. When we read that Bacchus made the Tyrrhenian mariners mad, so that they leapt into the sea, mistaking it for a meadow full of flowers, and so became dolphins, we are not concerned about the historical truth of this, but rather a higher poetical truth. We seem to hear the music of a thought, and care not If the understanding be not gratified. [Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"] </blockquote></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fable#etymonline_v_1052"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fable-monger" href="/word/fable-monger#etymonline_v_50450">fable-monger<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>also <span class="foreign notranslate">fablemonger</span>, "one who invents or repeats fables," 1670s, from <a href="/word/fable#etymonline_v_1052" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of fable " class="crossreference notranslate">fable</a> (n.) + <a href="/word/monger#etymonline_v_17437" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of monger " class="crossreference notranslate">monger</a> (n.).</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fable-monger#etymonline_v_50450"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fabric" href="/word/fabric#etymonline_v_1053">fabric<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>late 15c. (Caxton), "a building," a sense now obsolete, from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">fabrique</span> (14c.), verbal noun from <span class="foreign notranslate">fabriquer</span> (13c.), from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricare</span> "to make, construct, fashion, build," from <span class="foreign notranslate">fabrica</span> "workshop," also "an art, trade; a skillful production, structure, fabric," from <span class="foreign notranslate">faber</span> "artisan who works in hard materials," from Proto-Italic <span class="foreign notranslate">*fafro-</span>, from PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*dhabh-,</span> perhaps meaning "craftsman" (source also of Armenian <span class="foreign notranslate">darbin</span> "smith," and possibly also Lithuanian <span class="foreign notranslate">dab脿</span> "nature, habit, character," <span class="foreign notranslate">dabn霉s</span> "smart, well-dressed, elegant;" Russian <span class="foreign notranslate">dobryj</span> "good," Gothic <span class="foreign notranslate">gadob</span> "it fits," Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">ged膿fe</span> "fitting;" also see <a href="/word/daft" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of daft " class="crossreference notranslate">daft</a>).</p> <blockquote> The noun <span class="foreign notranslate">fabrica</span> suggests the earlier existence of a feminine noun to which an adj. <span class="foreign notranslate">*fabriko-</span> referred; maybe <span class="foreign notranslate">ars</span> "art, craft." [de Vaan] </blockquote> <p>From 1630s as "a thing made; a structure of any kind." The sense in English has evolved via "manufactured material" (1753) to "textile, woven or felted cloth" (1791). Compare <a href="/word/forge#etymonline_v_11801" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of forge " class="crossreference notranslate">forge</a> (n.) which is a doublet.</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fabric#etymonline_v_1053"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fabricate" href="/word/fabricate#etymonline_v_32686">fabricate<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(v.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>mid-15c., "to fashion, make, build," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricatus</span>, past participle of <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricare</span> "to make, construct, fashion, build," from <span class="foreign notranslate">fabrica</span> (see <a href="/word/fabric" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of fabric " class="crossreference notranslate">fabric</a>). In bad sense of "tell a lie (etc.)," it is recorded by 1779. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Fabricated</span>; <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricating</span>.</p></section></div></div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="/word/fabricate#etymonline_v_32686"><span>Related entries & more</span>聽<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of fabrication" href="/word/fabrication#etymonline_v_32944">fabrication<!-- -->聽<!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>c. 1500, <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricacioun</span>, "manufacturing, construction," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricationem</span> (nominative <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricatio</span>) "a structure, construction, a making," noun of action from past-participle stem of <span class="foreign notranslate">fabricare</span> "to make, construct" (see <a href="/word/fabricate" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of fabricate " class="crossreference notranslate">fabricate</a>). 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