fiche

See also: fiché

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːʃ/
  • Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun

fiche (plural fiches)

  1. a microfiche

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

fiche n (plural fiches or fichen)

  1. (board games, card games) chip, token
  2. (Belgium) form (blank template on paper)
  3. (information science) card, like a punch card, microfiche or file card

Synonyms

(file card):

Hypernyms

French

Etymology

From ficher.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiʃ/
  • (file)

Noun

fiche f (plural fiches)

  1. record
  2. card (in a file)
  3. plug

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

fiche

  1. inflection of ficher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. (colloquial) infinitive of ficher
    Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu’il m’a aperçue en ville le mercredi.
    The teacher is able to give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday.

Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Irish cardinal numbers
 <  19 20 21  > 
    Cardinal : fiche
    Ordinal : fichiú

Etymology

From Old Irish fiche,[1] from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (two-ten).

Pronunciation

Numeral

fiche

  1. twenty

Usage notes

Always used with nouns in the singular; triggers no mutation:

  • fiche carrtwenty cars
  • fiche beantwenty women
  • fiche bliaintwenty years

Derived terms

Noun

fiche m (genitive singular fichead, nominative plural fichidí)

  1. twenty, a group of twenty, a score
    Synonym: scór

Declension

  • Plural used after numerals other than two: fichid

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiche fhiche bhfiche
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 69
  3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 50

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfiʃ/*
  • Rhymes: -iʃ

Noun

fiche f (invariable)

  1. chip (gambling)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.ke/
  • Rhymes: -ike
  • Hyphenation: fì‧che

Noun

fiche f pl

  1. plural of fica

Middle English

Noun

fiche

  1. Alternative form of fecche

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wikantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (two-ten).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲixʲe/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers
 <  10 20 30  > 
    Cardinal : fiche
    Ordinal : fichetmad

fiche m (genitive singular fichet, nominative plural fichit)

  1. twenty
    • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 41b2
      fiche ar chét
      one hundred and twenty [lit. twenty in front of a hundred]
    • De Ira, published in "An Irish Penitential", Ériu vol. 7, page 166, edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn
      Nech marbus a mac nó a ingin, peinnid blíadain ar xx.it.
      Anyone who kills their son or daughter [must do] 21 years [lit. a year in front of twenty] in penance.

Declension

Masculine nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fiche fichitL fichit
Vocative fiche fichitL fichtea
Accusative fichitN fichitL fichtea
Genitive fichet fichetL fichetN
Dative fichitL fichtib fichtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fiche ḟiche fiche
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Portuguese

Verb

fiche

  1. inflection of fichar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

fiche

  1. inflection of fichar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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