Etymology

fimbria

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Today it means: An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. Full definition →

Late Latin fimbria ← Latin fimbriae
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfimbriae“fibers, threads, fringe”
  2. Late Latin · learned borrowing fromfimbria“a border, fringe”
  3. English todayfimbria

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

Words from the same roots

Latinfimbriae all →

fringe

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