fetid

See also: fètid

English

Alternative forms

• foetid
• fœtid (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛtɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪd

Adjective

fetid (comparative more fetid, superlative most fetid)

1. Foul-smelling, stinking.

   I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.

   • 1878, Henry James, “Honoré de Balzac”, in French Poets and Novelists‎^[1], London: Macmillan, II, p. 122:

     […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:malodorous

Derived terms

• fetidly
• fetidness

 

Translations

foul-smelling

• Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haśıq)
• Bulgarian: вонящ (bg) (vonjašt), зловонен (bg) (zlovonen)
• Catalan: fètid (ca)
• Czech: páchnoucí (cs), smrdutý (cs), zapáchající
• Dutch: walmend (nl), stinkend (nl)
• Finnish: löyhkäävä (fi), pahanhajuinen (fi)
• French: fétide (fr)
• German: stinkend (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls)
• Greek: δύσοσμος (el) m (dýsosmos), δυσώδης (el) m or f (dysódis)
• Ido: fetida (io)
• Italian: fetido (it)
• Latin: fetidus
• Malay:

  Jawi: هاڽير (of meat)

  Rumi: hanyir (of meat)

• Maori: hāruru, koeo
• Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır)
• Polish: cuchnący (pl)
• Portuguese: fétido (pt)
• Romanian: fetid (ro)
• Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij), зловонный (ru) (zlovonnyj)
• Spanish: fétido (es)
• Swedish: stinkande (sv)
• Tagalog: mabaho
• Turkish: kokmuş (tr), kokuşmuş (tr), kokuşuk (tr)

See also

• asafoetida

Noun

fetid (plural fetids)

1. (rare) The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fétide, from Latin foetidus.

Adjective

fetid m or n (feminine singular fetidă, masculine plural fetizi, feminine and neuter plural fetide)

1. fetid

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	fetid		fetidă		fetizi	fetide
	definite	fetidul		fetida		fetizii	fetidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	fetid		fetide		fetizi	fetide
	definite	fetidului		fetidei		fetizilor	fetidelor

Related terms

• fetiditate