fimbria

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/ === Noun === fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ) (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe. (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects. Synonym: pilus ==== Derived terms ==== fimbrial (adjective) ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “fimbria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɪm.bri.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfim.bri.a] === Noun === fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension alternative form of fimbriae: a fringe, border, edge ==== Inflection ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “fimbria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fimbria”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “fimbria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “fimbria”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray == Spanish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfimbɾja/ [ˈfĩm.bɾja] Rhymes: -imbɾja Syllabification: fim‧bria === Noun === fimbria f (plural fimbrias) (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe) === Further reading === “fimbria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025