fabulate

Meanings

Verb

• To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
• To relate as or in the manner of a fable.
• To tell fables, to narrate with fables.

Noun

• A folk story that is not entirely believable.
• A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.

Origin

• From Latin fābulātus, perfect passive participle of fābulor, from fābula.
• Coined around 1934 by folklorist Carl von Sydow to contrast with memorate.