fem
English
Etymology
Clipping of feminine
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛm/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛm
Noun
fem (plural fems)
- (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme
- Antonym: butch
- 2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
- 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
- "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."
- 2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge, →ISBN:
- [...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...
- 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
Adjective
fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)
- (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.
- Antonym: masc
- (LGBT) Synonym of femme
- Antonym: butch
- 2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 79:
- Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]
Derived terms
- femboy (a feminine male)
- fem lib
Anagrams
- EFM, EMF, MEF, emf
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈfem/
Etymology 1
From Latin fimum.
Noun
fem m (plural fems)
- dung
- (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)
- (in the plural, especially Balearics) rubbish
- Synonym: escombraries
Related terms
- femar
- femejar
- femer
- femta
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fem
- first-person plural present indicative form of fer
- first-person plural present subjunctive form of fer
- first-person plural imperative form of fer
Further reading
- “fem” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fem”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “fem” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fem” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
< 4 | 5 | 6 > |
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Cardinal : fem Ordinal : femte | ||
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɛmˀ]
Numeral
fem
- five
Elfdalian
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Cardinal : fem Ordinal : femt | ||
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.
Numeral
fem
- five
French
Etymology
English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)). English fem is itself from French femme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛm/
Noun
fem f (plural fems)
- a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)
- 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:
- Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c'est une gouine qui n'a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n'est pas un passe-droit pour d'intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.
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Norwegian Bokmål
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Cardinal : fem Ordinal : femte | ||
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛm/
Numeral
fem
- five
Derived terms
- femdel
- femdoble
- femkamp
- femkant
- femsifret
- tjuefem
Related terms
- femte
References
- “fem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”).
Numeral
fem
- five
Derived terms
- femdel
- femkamp
- femkant
- tjuefem
Related terms
- femte
References
- “fem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun) fim
- (Puter, Vallader) füm
Etymology
From Latin fūmus.
Noun
fem m
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke
Swedish
< 4 | 5 | 6 > |
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Cardinal : fem Ordinal : femte | ||
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛm/
Audio (file)
Numeral
fem
- five
Coordinate terms
—0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 | |
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0— | noll | en/ett | två | tre | fyra | fem | sex | sju | åtta | nio |
1— | tio | elva | tolv | tretton | fjorton | femton | sexton | sjutton | arton/aderton | nitton |
2— | tjugo | tjugoen/-ett | tjugotvå | tjugotre | tjugofyra | tjugofem | tjugosex | tjugosju | tjugoåtta | tjugonio |
3— | trettio | trettioen/-ett | trettiotvå | trettiotre | trettiofyra | trettiofem | trettiosex | trettiosju | trettioåtta | trettionio |
4— | fyrtio | fyrtioen/-ett | fyrtiotvå | fyrtiotre | fyrtiofyra | fyrtiofem | fyrtiosex | fyrtiosju | fyrtioåtta | fyrtionio |
5— | femtio | femtioen/-ett | femtiotvå | femtiotre | femtiofyra | femtiofem | femtiosex | femtiosju | femtioåtta | femtionio |
6— | sextio | sextioen/-ett | sextiotvå | sextiotre | sextiofyra | sextiofem | sextiosex | sextiosju | sextioåtta | sextionio |
7— | sjuttio | sjuttioen/-ett | sjuttiotvå | sjuttiotre | sjuttiofyra | sjuttiofem | sjuttiosex | sjuttiosju | sjuttioåtta | sjuttionio |
8— | åttio | åttioen/-ett | åttiotvå | åttiotre | åttiofyra | åttiofem | åttiosex | åttiosju | åttioåtta | åttionio |
9— | nittio | nittioen/-ett | nittiotvå | nittiotre | nittiofyra | nittiofem | nittiosex | nittiosju | nittioåtta | nittionio |
- 100: hundra
- 103: tusen
- 104: tiotusen (myriad)
- 106: miljon
- 109: miljard
- 1012: biljon
- 1015: biljard
- 1018: triljon
- 1021: triljard
- 1024: kvadriljon
- 1027: kvadriljard
- 1030: kvintiljon
- 1033: kvintiljard
- 1036: sextiljon
- 1039: sextiljard
- 1042: septiljon
- 1045: septiljard
- 1048: oktiljon
- 1051: oktiljard
- 1054: noniljon
- 1057: noniljard
- 1060: deciljon
- 1063: deciljard
- 1066: undeciljon
- 1069: undeciljard
- 1072: duodeciljon
- 1075: duodeciljard
- 1078: tredeciljon
- 1081: tredeciljard
- 1084: quattuordeciljon
- 1087: quattuordeciljard
…
- 10100: googol
…
- 10120: vigintiljon
- 10123: vigintiljard
…
Related terms
- femaktare
- femaktsdrama
- fembarnsfamilj
- femcylindrig
- femdagarsvecka
- femdraget
- femdubbel
- femdubbla
- femdubbling
- femdygnsperiod
- femdygnsprognos
- femdörrarsbil
- femetta
- femfaldig
- femfemma
- femfilig
- femfingerört
- femfotad
- femgradig
- femhundra
- femhundrade
- femhundralapp
- femhundratalet
- femhundring
- femhörning
- femkamp
- femkampare
- femkant
- femkantig
- femkort
- femkrona
- femkronorsmynt
- femkronorssedel
- femling
- femma
- femmastad
- femmil
- femmilslopp
- femminutersperiod
- femmänning
- femprocentig
- femroddare
- femrummare
- femrums
- femrumslägenhet
- femsetare
- femsetsmatch
- femsiffrig
- femsitsig
- femsnåret
- femspaltig
- femstjärnig
- femsträngad
- femstämmig
- femte
- femtedel
- femteklassare
- femtekolonn
- femteplats
- femti
- femtiden
- femtio
- femton
- femtusen
- femtusende
- femtåig
- femudd
- femuddig
- femudding
- femväxlad
- femvåningshus
- femårig
- femåring
- femårsjubileum
- femårsperiod
- femårsplan
- femårsåldern
- femöring
See also
- noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv
References
- fem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English fermentation.
Noun
fem (nominative plural fems)
- fermentation
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fem | fems |
genitive | fema | femas |
dative | feme | femes |
accusative | femi | femis |
vocative 1 | o fem! | o fems! |
predicative 2 | femu | femus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only