fée

See also: fee, Fee, fêe, feë, fe'e, and fɛɛ́

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fae, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada, Italian fata, Spanish hada.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fe/
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Rhymes: -e

Noun

fée f (plural fées)

fairy, fay

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: фе́я (féja)
→ Danish: fe
→ Dutch: fee
- Afrikaans: fee
- → West Frisian: fee
→ German: Fee
→ Luxembourgish: Fee
→ Norwegian: fe
→ Russian: фе́я (féja)
→ Swedish: fe
→ Vietnamese: phê

Further reading

“fée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
“fée” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
“fée” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

Noun

fée f (plural fées)

(Jersey) fairy

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