The story
- Latin · borrowed fromfībula“buckle, clasp, pin”
- English todayfibula
Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.
Words from the same roots
Latinfībula all →
fibulin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.