fetis

See also: fetiş and fetiš

Indonesian

Noun

fetis (first-person possessive fetisku, second-person possessive fetismu, third-person possessive fetisnya)

1. fetish

Latin

Adjective

fētīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of fētus

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French fetis, faitis, from Latin factīcius.

Adjective

fetis

1. neat; pretty; well made; graceful
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Ful fetis was hir cloke, as I was war.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: featous

References

• “fetis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.