flabel

English

Etymology

From Latin flabellum (“a fan”), diminutive of flabrum (“a breeze”), from flare (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪbəl/

Noun

flabel (plural flabels)

1. (obsolete) A fan or flabellum.
   • 1621, Tobias Venner, A Briefe and Accurate Treatise, Concerning, the Taking of the Fume of Tobacco […]‎^[1], page [6]:

     Moreouer, the lungs which are the flabell of the heart […] are by the immoderate heate and sircitie [fiercity?] of this fume, quickely dried and coarctated, and consequently become vnapt for motion, to the great offence of the heart, and ruine at length of the whole body.

   • 1662, John Ellis, S. Austin Imitated: or Retractions and Repentings […]‎^[2], page 118:

     And so this flabel of Schism in the Church, shall also be the bellows of Sedition in the Common-wealth.

   • 1677 [1675], Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, anonymous translator, The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier […]‎^[3], page 179:

     The Bramins also distribute Flabels to the most considerable of the Company, the handles whereof being eight foot long, are plated with Gold and Silver. […] There are six of these Flabels usually employ’d to keep off the Flies from their God; the better sort taking it by turns, that the honour of waiting upon their God may be more equally shar’d.

Related terms

• flabellate
• flabelliform

Further reading

• “flabel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• befall

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flabellum.

Noun

flabel n (plural flabeluri)

1. flabellum (fan)

Declension

Declension of flabel

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	flabel	flabelul		flabeluri	flabelurile
genitive-dative	flabel	flabelului		flabeluri	flabelurilor
vocative	flabelule			flabelurilor

References

• flabel in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN