fée
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fae, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada, Italian fata, Spanish hada.
Pronunciation
Noun
fée f (plural fées)
Descendants
Further reading
- “fée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fātum (“fate”).
Noun
fée f (plural fées)
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