The corpus record — Latin

fabulus

fabulus · m

a small bean

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

făbŭlus, i, m.dim.faba, perh. masc. in analogy with ku/amos,

I a small bean, Cato, R. R. 70, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4; Gell, 4, 11, 1 and 10: fabulis, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 8 (where a nom. fabula is sometimes unnecessarily assumed).

In the wild

fabulo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.11.10
fabulo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.11.1
fabulos Cato, De agri cultura 70

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.