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noun a short moral story (often with animal characters)
originBorrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0