fibril

English

Pronunciation
  • (General American) IPA(key): /faɪbɹ(ə)l/
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

fibril (plural fibrils)

  1. A fine fibre or filament
  2. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants

Derived terms

Translations

Indonesian

Noun

fibril (first-person possessive fibrilku, second-person possessive fibrilmu, third-person possessive fibrilnya)

  1. fibril

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin fibrilla, a diminutive of Latin fibra (“fibre, filament”).

Noun

fibril f (genitive singular fibrile, nominative plural fibrilí)

  1. fibril

Declension
Declension of fibril

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fibril fibrilí
Vocative a fhibril a fhibrilí
Genitive fibrile fibrilí
Dative fibril fibrilí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhibril na fibrilí
Genitive na fibrile na bhfibrilí
Dative leis an bhfibril

don fhibril

 leis na fibrilí

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fibril fhibril bhfibril
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fibril”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “fibril”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
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