fiaba

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fābula (“narration”), through intermediate Vulgar Latin roots *flāba, from *fābla through metathesis. Doublet of favola and fola.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfja.ba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Hyphenation: fià‧ba

Noun

fiaba f (plural fiabe)

  1. fable
  2. fairy tale, fairy story

Further reading
  • fiaba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Verb

fiaba

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of fiar
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