fibre Copy link Outline 1. fibra2. căpillāmentum (hair-like)3. fīlum • fibre: 1. fibra: f.s of roots, radicum f., Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13: the veins dispersed into extremely minute f.s, venae in praetenues f. (al. fimbrias) dispersae, Plin. 11, 37, 89. 2. căpillāmentum (hair-like): those plants which have not a perpendicular root, support themselves by means of a vast number of f.s, quae rectam non habent radicem, plurimis nituntur c., Plin. 19, 6, 31. 3. fīlum: v. thread.