foie

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /fwa/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophones: foi, foies, fois, Foix
• Hyphenation: foie

Noun

foie m (plural foies)

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

Derived terms

• avoir les foies
• foie gras
• huile de foie de morue

Further reading

• “foie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

foie f

1. plural of foia

Old French

Alternative forms

• feie

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. liver

Descendants

• French: foie
• Norman: faie

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfwa/ [ˈfwa]
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

foie m (plural foies)

1. foie (“foie gras”)