foie

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of foie gras, from French foie gras, from foie (liver) + gras (fat)

Noun[edit]

foie (uncountable) (lit. liver)

  1. (colloquial) Ellipsis of foie gras.
    • 2005, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 50, number 5, page 159:
      Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.
    • 2006, Chuck Johnson, Blanche Johnson, Savor Idaho Cookbook:
      Season the foie and sear until dark golden brown. Drain off and reserve the foie, adding the fat back into the pan and bring heat back up.

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (liver (as food)), from Latin iecur fīcātum (fig-stuffed liver, foie gras). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesed to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

foie m (plural foies)

  1. (anatomy, countable) liver
  2. (uncountable) liver (as food)

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Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

foie f

  1. plural of foia

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (liver), from Latin iecur fīcātum (fig-stuffed liver).

Noun[edit]

foie oblique singularm (oblique plural foies, nominative singular foies, nominative plural foie)

  1. liver

Descendants[edit]

  • French: foie
  • Norman: faie

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ellipsis of foie gras, from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

foie m (plural foies)

  1. foie (foie gras)