fibra

Borrowed from Latin fibra.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfi.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfi.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfi.bɾa]

fibra f (plural fibres)

1. fiber, fibre (all senses)
2. (materials science) axis
3. (figurative) energy, vigour

• (filament): filament
• (thread): fil
• (axis): eix
• (vigour): energia, vigor

• fibril·la

• “fibra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fibra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fibra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Derived from Latin fibra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.bra/
• Rhymes: -ibra
• Hyphenation: fì‧bra

fibra f (plural fibre)

1. fiber, fibre (all senses)

• fabri

Possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), whence findō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɪ.bra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.bra]

fibra f (genitive fibrae); first declension

1. fibre, filament

First-declension noun.

• “fibra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fibra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fibra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fiber”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin fibra. Compare the inherited doublet fêvera.

fibra f (plural fibras)

1. fiber / fibre (single elongated piece of material)

• fibroso

• IPA^(key): [ˈfibra]

fibra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fibră

Borrowed from Latin fibra. Compare the inherited doublet hebra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfibɾa/ [ˈfi.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ibɾa
• Syllabification: fi‧bra

fibra f (plural fibras)

1. fiber / fibre (a single elongated piece of material)
2. fiber / fibre (a material (especially synthetic) in the form of fibers)
3. fiber / fibre; dietary fiber / dietary fibre
4. (informal) fiberglass / fibreglass

• “fibra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024