fibril

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra. Doublet of fibrilla. Compare fibre.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /faɪbɹ(ə)l/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fibril (plural fibrils)

1. A fine fibre or filament.
2. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.

Derived terms

• fibrillar
• fibrilliform
• interfibrillar
• macrofibril
• microfibril

 

Translations

fine fibre or filament

• Dutch: fibril (nl)
• French: fibrille (fr) f
• Norwegian: fibrill (no) m

fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants

• French: fibrille (fr) f
• German: Fäserchen (de) n
• Greek: ινίδιο (el) n (inídio)
• Norwegian: fibrill (no) m

Indonesian

Noun

fibril (plural fibril-fibril)

1. fibril

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin fibrilla, a diminutive of Latin fibra (“fibre, filament”).

Noun

fibril f (genitive singular fibrile, nominative plural fibrilí)

1. fibril

Declension

Declension of fibril (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fibril fibrilí vocative a fhibril a fhibrilí genitive fibrile fibrilí dative fibril fibrilí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhibril na fibrilí genitive na fibrile na bhfibrilí dative leis an bhfibril don fhibril leis na fibrilí

Derived terms

• dífhibriliú (“defibrillation”)
• dífhibrileoir (“defibrillator”)
• néaraifibril

Mutation

Mutated forms of fibril

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fibril	fhibril	bhfibril

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fibril”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “fibril”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024