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Confabulate means that in english as well. the psych meaning is very much secondary. That's why cardinals are trapped in a "confab"

• ethanbond 3y ago
  I have never heard “confabulate” in [American] English to mean anything other than “bullshitting.”
  • tremon 3y ago
    Same here. I don't know if it's correct, but I've always considered "confabulate" etymologically related to "fable", so it's always fictitious by definition. edit: it is: https://www.etymonline.com/word/confabulate https://www.etymonline.com/word/confabulate -- although both the verb fabulari and the noun fabula ultimately come from the proto root bha-, which is also the root for falar in Portuguese and hablar in Spanish (and presumably parlez in French?)
    • trealira 3y ago
      No, according to Wiktionary[0] the verb parler comes from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre, which comes from Latin parabola (which in Late Latin could have the meaning of "parable"), and that was borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή. The Italian verb parlare has a similar etymology. [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parler https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parler