fée

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See also: fee, Fee, fêe, feë, fe'e, and fɛɛ́

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French fae, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada, Italian fata, Spanish hada.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /fe/
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Rhymes: -e

Noun[edit]

fée f (plural fées)

fairy, fay

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

→ Bulgarian: фе́я (féja)
→ Danish: fe
→ Dutch: fee
- Afrikaans: fee
- → West Frisian: fee
→ German: Fee
→ Luxembourgish: Fee
→ Norwegian: fe
→ Russian: фе́я (féja)
→ Swedish: fe
→ Vietnamese: phê

Further reading[edit]

“fée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
“fée” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
“fée” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

Noun[edit]

fée f (plural fées)

(Jersey) fairy

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