Fabâlis, & hoc fabâle, pen. prod. Of a beane. vt, Siliqua fabalis. Plin. A beane codde.Stipula fabalis.Ouid.A beane stalke.
Fabula, fabulæ, pen. cor. fando dicta, vt ait Varro. A fable: a tale: an interlude, or comedie.Iam nos fabulæ sumus.Terent.Now bee we a talking stocke to euerie man: nowe doe all men mocke, and talke of vs.-mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur. Hora. The name being chaunged it is thou that they speake of. Fabula.Cic.A vaine tale deuised for pleasure.Nutricularum fabulæ. Quint. Aniles fabulæ. Quint. Olde doting wiues tales.Commentitia fabula. Lactant. A fained tale.Conuiuales fabulæ.Tacit.Tales tolde at the table.Ficta fabula. Propert. Lepida fabula. Apul. Mendax fabula.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
făbālis (făbūl-), e, adj. [id.], of or belonging to beans, bean-: seges, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4: stipulae, Ov. F. 4, 725.—II.Subst.: făbālĭa, ium, n., bean-stalks, Cato, R. R. 37, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3; Col. 2, 10, 9; Plin. 22, 25, 69, 141; 18, 12, 30, 120.
făbŭlus, i, m.dim. [faba, perh. masc. in analogy with ku/amos], a small bean, Cato, R. R. 70, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4; Gell, 4, 11, 1 and 10: fabulis, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 8 (where a nom. fabula is sometimes unnecessarily assumed).