fabula
/ˈfæb.ju.lə/noun
fabula is a noun meaning “A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-B-U-L-A, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fabula is fabulae.
What does fabula mean?
noun
- 1
A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fabula?
- /ˈfæb.ju.lə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fabula
- fabulae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fabula?
Fabula appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fabula come from?
From Latin fabula (“story”). Doublet of fable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).