fête

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See also: fete, Fete, fêté, fetĕ, and fețe

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French fête.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fête (plural fêtes)

  1. Alternative spelling of fete

Verb[edit]

fête (third-person singular simple present fêtes, present participle fêting, simple past and past participle fêted)

  1. Alternative spelling of fete
    • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French feste, from Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fête f (plural fêtes)

  1. winter holidays (always in plural)
    Tu fais quoi pour les fêtes (de fin d’année)?What will you do for the (winter) holidays? (literally, “the end-of-year holidays”)
  2. party
    Synonyms: teuf, partie, nouba
    Je fais une fête chez moi ce soir!I'm throwing a party at my place tonight! (literally, “I'm doing a party”)
  3. (Christianity) name day
    Le 18 mai, c’est la fête des Éric.May 18 is the name day of people named Eric.
  4. (Canada, Louisiana) birthday
    Bonne fête!Happy birthday!

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Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • English: fête
  • German: Fete
  • Polish: feta

Verb[edit]

fête

  1. inflection of fêter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Jersey) IPA(key): /feit/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

fête f (plural fêtes)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) holiday