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==Etymology==
The word "fable" comes from the [[Latin]] "fabula" (a "[[story]]"), itself derived from "fari" ("to speak") with the -ula suffix that signifies "little": hence, a "little story".
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Definition==
*a fictitious [[narrative]] or [[statement]]: as a : a [[legend]]ary story of [[supernatural]] happenings
:b : a narration intended to enforce a useful [[truth]]; especially : one in which [[animals]] [[speak]] and [[act]] like [[human]] [[beings]]
:c : falsehood, lie
==Description==
A '''fable''' is a succinct [[story]], in prose or verse, that features [[animals]], [[mythical]] [[creatures]], plants, inanimate objects, or [[forces]] of [[nature]] which are [[anthropomorphized]] (given [[human]] [[qualities]]), and that [[illustrates]] a [[moral]] lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be [[expressed]] explicitly in a pithy maxim.
A fable differs from a [[parable]] in that the latter excludes [[animals]], plants, inanimate objects, and [[forces]] of [[nature]] as actors that [[assume]] [[speech]] and other [[powers]] of [[humankind]].
Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version King James Version] of the [[New Testament]], "μύθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the [[translators]] as "fable" in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy First] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2nd_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy Second Timothy], in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_Titus Titus] and in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Peter First Peter].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable]
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
==Etymology==
The word "fable" comes from the [[Latin]] "fabula" (a "[[story]]"), itself derived from "fari" ("to speak") with the -ula suffix that signifies "little": hence, a "little story".
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Definition==
*a fictitious [[narrative]] or [[statement]]: as a : a [[legend]]ary story of [[supernatural]] happenings
:b : a narration intended to enforce a useful [[truth]]; especially : one in which [[animals]] [[speak]] and [[act]] like [[human]] [[beings]]
:c : falsehood, lie
==Description==
A '''fable''' is a succinct [[story]], in prose or verse, that features [[animals]], [[mythical]] [[creatures]], plants, inanimate objects, or [[forces]] of [[nature]] which are [[anthropomorphized]] (given [[human]] [[qualities]]), and that [[illustrates]] a [[moral]] lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be [[expressed]] explicitly in a pithy maxim.
A fable differs from a [[parable]] in that the latter excludes [[animals]], plants, inanimate objects, and [[forces]] of [[nature]] as actors that [[assume]] [[speech]] and other [[powers]] of [[humankind]].
Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version King James Version] of the [[New Testament]], "μύθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the [[translators]] as "fable" in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy First] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2nd_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy Second Timothy], in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_Titus Titus] and in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Peter First Peter].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable]
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
