fabellor

Latin

Etymology

From fābella (tale, short story) +‎ -or (deponent verb-forming suffix). Attested in glosses from late antiquity.[1]

Verb

fābellor (present infinitive fābellārī, perfect active fābellātus sum); first conjugation, deponent (Late Latin)

  1. to recount, narrate

Descendants

(See also fābulor.)

  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: favellare
    • Sassarese: fabiddà
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: fevelâ
    • Istriot: favalà
    • Romansch: favler
    • Venetan: favelar (obsolete?)
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: faveler
      • Lorrain: feuvler, fofler
    • Old Occitan: favelar
      • Provençal: favelar

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fabellari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 341