fibro

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

fibro (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 56:

     Every day, all day and all night sometimes, the town jammed jazz with bits of loose tin slapping around on top of the mud-stained fibro walls […].

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19:

     There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.

2. (informal) Fibromyalgia.
   • 2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43:

     When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.

Translations

fibro-cement

• Polish: azbestocement (pl) m
• Russian: асбестоцеме́нтный ши́фер m (asbestoceméntnyj šífer), ши́фер (ru) m (šífer)

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto fibro, from English fibre, French fibre, German Fiber, Italian fibra, Spanish fibra, Portuguese fibra.

Noun

fibro (plural fibri)

1. fibre

Derived terms

• fibreto

 

Latin

Noun

fibrō

1. dative/ablative singular of fiber