fess
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fɛs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology 1
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]fess (third-person singular simple present fesses, present participle fessing, simple past and past participle fessed)
- To confess; to admit.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English fesse, from Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Cognate with fajita, fascia, and fascism.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fess (plural fesses)
- (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Norton, published 2005, page 294:
- Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 420:
- The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]band
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Etymology 3
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fess
- (UK dialect) Proud; conceited.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:
- Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"
- (UK dialect) Lively; active; strong.
- (UK dialect) Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.
Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Viennese German fesch (“smart, stylish”), from English fashionable.[1][2]
Adjective
[edit]fess (comparative fessebb, superlative legfessebb)
- (colloquial, dated) smart, stylish, chic
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fess | fessek |
| accusative | fesset | fesseket |
| dative | fessnek | fesseknek |
| instrumental | fessel | fessekkel |
| causal-final | fessért | fessekért |
| translative | fessé | fessekké |
| terminative | fessig | fessekig |
| essive-formal | fessként | fessekként |
| essive-modal | fessül | — |
| inessive | fessben | fessekben |
| superessive | fessen | fesseken |
| adessive | fessnél | fesseknél |
| illative | fessbe | fessekbe |
| sublative | fessre | fessekre |
| allative | fesshez | fessekhez |
| elative | fessből | fessekből |
| delative | fessről | fessekről |
| ablative | fesstől | fessektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
fessé | fesseké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
fesséi | fessekéi |
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]fess
References
[edit]- ^ fess in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ fess in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.
Further reading
[edit]- fess in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Mauritian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fess
References
[edit]- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]
Named after the city of Fez, Morocco.
Noun
[edit]fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Fess (alternative capitalization)
Noun
[edit]fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “fess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *westā (“staying the night; feast”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fess f (genitive feisse)
- verbal noun of foïd: (act of) spending the night
- evening entertainment, feast, festival
Declension
[edit]| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | fessL | feissL | fessaH |
| vocative | fessL | feissL | fessaH |
| accusative | feissN | feissL | fessaH |
| genitive | feisseH | fessL | fessN |
| dative | feissL | fessaib | fessaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *wissos, from Proto-Indo-European *widtós; akin to Welsh gwŷs and Middle Breton gous.
Verb
[edit]·fess
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| fess | ḟess | fess pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Seychellois Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fess
References
[edit]- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fess n
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | fess | fess |
| definite | fesset | fessets | |
| plural | indefinite | fess | fess |
| definite | fessen | fessens |
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