The corpus record — Latin

fabulor

to speak

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Cistellaria 3 · 5.74/10k
Epidicus 3 · 4.61/10k
Amphitruo 4 · 4.07/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Poenulus 4 · 3.63/10k
Menaechmi 3 · 3.16/10k
Trinummus 3 · 3.05/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Rudens 3 · 2.53/10k
Miles Gloriosus 3 · 2.37/10k
Captivi 2 · 2.31/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fābŭlor — Lewis & Short

fābŭlor, ātus (archaic

I inf. praes. fabularier, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 46; id. Most. 3, 1, 77; id. Ps. 1, 1, 60; id. Trin. 2, 4, 60; Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 36; also act. form fabulaverit, Afran. ap. Non. 232, 26 dub.: fabulabere, Rib. v. 147: fabulem, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 33 Fleck.), 1, v. dep. a. [fabula], to speak, converse, talk, chat (mostly ante- and post-class.; esp. freq. in Plaut.; not in Cic.; syn.: aio, inquam, dico, loquor, etc.).

A In gen.: ut pro viribus tacere ac fabulari tute noveris, Enn. ap. Non. 475, 3 (Trag. v. 182 ed. Vahl.): clare advorsum fabulabor, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 144: reliqua alia, id. Poen. 3, 4, 8: ut aperte tibi nunc fabuler, Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 49: quod omnes homines fabulantur per vias, Mihi esse filiam inventam, Plaut. Cist. 5, 1: aliquid, to say, utter, Liv. 45, 39 fin.: (ars medendi) ictum fulmine Aesculapium fabulata, Plin. 29, 1, 1, § 3: inter sese, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 53: cum aliquo, Suet. Calig. 22; id. Dom. 4: stabant Fronto et Festus fabulantes, Gell. 19, 13, 1: inter fabulandum, id. 15, 1, 4.—

B Esp., to speak a language: qui Obsce et Volsce fabulantur, Titin. Com. v. 104 Rib.

In the wild

fabulata Plautus, Epidicus 4.1
fabulans Plautus, Menaechmi 5.5
fabulatur Plautus, Mercator 2.3
fabulati Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.10.1
fabulantur Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.131
fabulantur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.1.10

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.