fête
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fête (plural fêtes)
- Alternative spelling of fete
Verb[edit]
fête (third-person singular simple present fêtes, present participle fêting, simple past and past participle fêted)
- Alternative spelling of fete
Anagrams[edit]
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)
- 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”)
- party
- Je fais une fête chez moi ce soir! ― I'm throwing a party at my place tonight! (literally, “I'm doing a party”)
- (Christianity) name day
- Le 18 mai, c’est la fête des Éric. ― May 18 is the name day of people named Eric.
- (Canada, Louisiana) birthday
- Bonne fête! ― Happy birthday!
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Verb[edit]
fête
- inflection of fêter:
Further reading[edit]
- “fête”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fête f (plural fêtes)
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