fain

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Adverb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 References 2 Romanian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Adjective 2.3.1 Declension

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Akin to Old Norse feginn (“‘glad, joyful’”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 (faginon), “‘to rejoice’”), Old Norse fagna (“‘to rejoice’”)^[1]. Cf. Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐍃 (*fahs), “‘glad’”)^[2].

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: feign

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fain

1. Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
   • (A date for this quote is being sought): Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, line 11

     O love, of my death my life is fain,

2. Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.

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fain (comparative more fain, superlative most fain)

1. With joy; gladly; with wold.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     The second thing I fain would have had was a tobacco-pipe, but it was impossible to me to make one…

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to fain (third-person singular simple present fains, present participle faining, simple past and past participle fained)

1. (obsolete) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice
2. (obsolete) To gladden

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• Notes:

1. ^ fain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
2. ^ fahs and faginon in Köbler's Gotisches Wörterbuch

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

From German fein.

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• IPA: /fajn/

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fain ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. cool, fine, of good quality

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