fain

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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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fain

  1. Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
  2. Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.

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fain (comparative more fain, superlative most fain)

Positive
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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Infinitive
to fain

Third person singular
fains

Simple past
fained

Past participle
fained

Present participle
faining

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

[edit] Romanian

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From German fein.

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fain 4 nom/acc forms

  1. cool, fine, of good quality

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