fabella

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fəˈbɛlə/ Hyphenation: fa‧bel‧la === Noun === fabella (plural fabellae) (anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From fābula +‎ -la (diminutive suffix). ==== Noun ==== fābella f (genitive fābellae); first declension diminutive of fābula (“fable, tale, story”) ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== fābellor ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === faba (“bean”) +‎ -ellus. From its bean-like shape and size, in some animals. ==== Noun ==== fabella f (anatomy) fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella) ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. === References === “fabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fabella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fabella”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.