fiabbare

Italian

Etymology

Either inherited from Latin fābulārī (“make up a story”) or formed within Italian from fiab(b)a +‎ -are.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fjabˈba.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: fiab‧bà‧re

Verb

fiabbàre (first-person singular present fiàbbo, first-person singular past historic fiabbài, past participle fiabbàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (archaic) to sing merry tunes and idle songs[1]
    • 14th c., Niccolò de' Rossi, chapter XXVI, in Per non usar era di polver lordo:
      Onni raeo millantar, e zò, ch’eo fiabbo...

References
  1. Wedgwood, Hensleigh. A dictionary of English etymology. Oxford: Trübner. Page 256.
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