feo

See also: fẽo

Asturian

Adjective

feo

  1. neuter of feu

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

First attested in the 20th century.

Pronunciation

Adjective

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural fees)

  1. (Castilianism) ugly

Usage notes

  • Often regarded "inadmissible" and not part of the literary language.

Esperanto

Etymology

From French fée and German Fee, by way of feino with the feminine suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfeo]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Hyphenation: fe‧o

Noun

feo (accusative singular feon, plural feoj, accusative plural feojn)

  1. fairy

Galician

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfeo̝]

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese feo, from Latin foedus (hideous).

Adjective

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas)

  1. ugly
    Synonyms: laido, edo, croucho, tocho
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:
      quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudo
      who was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese fẽo, from Latin faenum (hay). Cognate with Portuguese feno, Spanish heno.

Alternative forms

Noun

feo m (plural feos)

  1. hay
    • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:
      Jtem. deue o potro comer feo, palla, herua, orio, auea, espelqa, que quer dizer melga, et as qousas semellauelles a esto, que naturalmente som para seu comer.
      Item. The foal must eat hay, straw, grass, barley, oat, spelt —that is, melga— and things that are similar to these, which are naturally for them to eat
  2. beachgrass
Derived terms
  • feal
  • Feal
  • Feais
  • Feáns
  • Feás
  • Fial
  • Fiosa

Further reading

References

  • feo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • feo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • feo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • feo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • feo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

feo m (genitive singular as substantive feo, genitive as verbal noun feoite)

  1. verbal noun of feoigh
  2. decay

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feo fheo bhfeo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Macanese

Alternative forms

  • fêo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese feo. Compare Portuguese feio.

Adjective

feo

  1. ugly
    feo olâit doesn't look good (literally, “ugly look”)
    Ânsia feo olâIt is bad to be greedy (literally, “greed ugly look”)
    Estung'a quanto casa sâm bem di feo
    These houses are very ugly

Usage notes

  • feo olâ may be a calque of Cantonese 難睇难睇 (naan4 tai2, ugly, literally difficult to look (at)) or otherwise related to this phrase.

References

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin foedus (hideous). Cognate with Portuguese feio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfeo/ [ˈfe.o]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Syllabification: fe‧o

Adjective

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas, superlative feísimo)

  1. ugly
    Antonyms: guapo, bonito, bello, hermoso
  2. (Mexico) bad, gross, mean, nasty
  3. in poor condition

Derived terms

Further reading

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