fa-, fam-, fan-, fat-, -fess +

1. A short story with a moral, especially one in which the characters are animals.
2. A story about supernatural, mythological, or legendary characters and events.
3. A false or improbable account of something.
4. Myths and legends (fables) collectively.
5. Etymology: from Old French fable, from Latin fabula, "story, play, fable"; literally, "that which is told", from fari, "to speak, to tell".

Fables, a collection of stories attributed to Greek writer Aesop (c. 6th century B.C.). Many of the tales feature animals as characters and each one illustrates a specific moral. It is traditionally said to be the origin of the literary fable (although earlier examples have been found), they were used by the ancient Greeks for both educational and rhetorical purposes.

We should distinguish between the fable and the myth. A fable is a story, like “The Fox and the Grapes”, in which characters and plot, neither pretending to be real nor demanding believability, are fabricated as the vehicle of moral or didactic instruction.

Myths, on the other hand, are stories of anonymous origin, prevalent among primitive peoples and by them accepted as true, concerning supernatural beings and events, or natural beings and events influenced by supernatural agencies.

Fables are made by individuals; they may be told in any stage of a nation’s history. They are vessels made to order into which a lesson may be poured. Myths are born, not made. They are born in the infancy of a people and their culture.

Famous from being described or recounted in legends.

1. Informally speaking, extremely good, pleasant, or enjoyable.
2. Amazingly or almost unbelievably great or wonderful.
3. Existing only in, described in, or typical of myths and legends.

1. A reference to being amazingly, or almost unbelievably great, or impressive.
2. Relating to, or describing, that which is typical of myths and legends.
3. Characterized by being extremely good, pleasant, or enjoyable.

1. The condition of being very well known.
2. Someone’s reputation or a situation whereby a person is known, or talked about, by many people; especially, because of notable achievements.
3. Etymology: from "celebrity, renown", which came from Old French fame, from Latin fama, "talk, rumor, report, reputation"; literally, "saying", from the stem of fari, fatus, "to speak"; related to fateri, "to confess", fabula, "narrative, account, tale, story", fas, "divine law".

Very well known about by many people; renowned..

Known and recognized by many people.

1. In a manner or to an extent that is well known.
2. In a celebrated manner, or a superlative fashion.

1. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined.
2. Causing or capable of causing death; such as, a fatal car accident.
3. Causing destruction, disaster, or ruin.
4. Marking an important or decisive stage in a process or series of events.
5. Etymology: from Latin fata, fatum, "thing spoken (by the gods), one's destiny"; from fari, "to speak".

1. The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.

A submissive attitude to events, resulting from such a a belief.

2. A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them.
3. An attitude of resignation and passivity that results from the belief that people are powerless against fate.

1. An occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease.
2. An event or train of events thought to be determined by fate.

1. With fatal consequences or implications.
2. So as to cause death; mortally: "He was fatally injured."
3. According to the decree of fate; inevitably.

1. Literally, “something spoken (by the gods).”
2. The force or principle believed to predetermine events.
3. A consequence or final result.
4. Destiny or something that inevitably happens to someone or something.
5. An unhappy consequence or a disastrous or ruinous outcome.

Fates and their decisions; an old Greek story.

Believed to be controlled or predetermined by fate (or the fates).

1. After which an important, often dire consequence, seems to have been made inevitable.
2. Predetermined or controlled by fate.
3. Foretelling what is to come; especially, when it is something disastrous.