fimbria

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.

He was put to death by Fimbria, who was in command of some of the troops of Marius. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero
Albucilla in Tiberius time having, to kill himself, struck with too much tenderness, gave his adversaries opportunity to imprison and put him to death their own way.’ And that great leader, Demosthenes, after his rout in Sicily, did the same; and C. Fimbria, having struck himself too weakly, entreated his servant to despatch him. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

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