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- Latin · borrowed fromfimbriātus“fibrous, fringed”
- English todayfimbriate
Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.