fibro

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

fibro (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 322:
      Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.
    • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19:
      There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.
  2. (informal) Fibromyalgia.
    • 2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43:
      When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.

Translations

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto fibro, from English fibre, French fibre, German Fiber, Italian fibra, Spanish fibra, Portuguese fibra.

Noun

fibro (plural fibri)

  1. fibre

Derived terms

Latin

Noun

fibrō

  1. dative/ablative singular of fiber