fimbria

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/

fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)

1. (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
   1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.

      When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.

   2. (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.

      Synonym: pilus

• fimbrial (adjective)

• “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fimbria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfɪmbriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfimbriä]

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension

1. Alternative form of fimbriae: a fringe, border, edge

First-declension noun.

• “fimbria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fimbria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fimbria”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfimbɾja/ [ˈfĩm.bɾja]
• Rhymes: -imbɾja
• Syllabification: fim‧bria

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)

1. (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)

• “fimbria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28