fétiche
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Compare the doublet factice (a borrowing directly from the Latin), as well as the inherited Old French faitis.
Pronunciation
Noun
fétiche m (plural fétiches)
- (religion) fetish, idol
- La sculpture caduveo (...) se limite (...) à des fétiches et des représentations de dieux toujours de petites dimensions. (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie struct., 1958)
- (figuratively) amulet
- Synonym: porte-bonheur
- Il affectait de redouter les détours de la chance; il portait un fétiche d'or au milieu de son trousseau de clés. (Duhamel, Combat ombres, 1939)
- (sexuality) fetish
- La possession et la contemplation du fétiche provoquent soit l'orgasme sexuel, soit simplement des jouissances sentimentales platoniques. (Guiraud ds Lafon 1969)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Spanish: fetiche (see there for further descendants)
Adjective
fétiche (plural fétiches)
- (religion) animist
- Les arbres fétiches.
- bringing good luck
- C'est mon bracelet fétiche.
- (sexuality) fetish, used as a sexual fetish
- L'objet fétiche représente le pénis attribué par l'enfant à sa mère.
Further reading
- “fétiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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