feuilleton

feuilleton

See also: Feuilleton

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌfəɪˈtɑn/,[1] /ˈfʊɪˌtɒn/[2][3]

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.ɪ.tən/,[2] /fə.jə.ˈtoʊn/[4]

Noun

feuilleton (plural feuilletons)

1. A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
2. An article published in such a section.
   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], OCLC 560168646; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), OCLC 189563, page 3:

     Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other.

   • 1990, Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin: 1900, page 44,

     The feuilleton, like the other serious, trivial, and merely curious stories on the newspaper page, served up an excess of details. For the most part, the feuilleton writer observed, rather than explained.

   • 2008, Mila Ganeva, Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933, page 92,

     Indeed, more recent studies of the FZ [Frankfurter Zeitung] and the feuilleton genre also regard essays on fashion as unworthy of analysis — a gesture very similar to the condescending attitudes toward fashion journalism in the early 1920s.

Related terms

• feuilletonist
• roman feuilleton

Translations

section of a newspaper

Esperanto: felietono German: Feuilleton (de) n

article that appears in a feuilleton

Czech: fejeton m Dutch: feuilleton (nl) m Esperanto: felietono German: Feuilleton (de) n Macedonian: фе́љтон m (féljton) Polish: felieton (pl) m Russian: фельето́н (ru) m (felʹjetón) Yiddish: פֿעליעטאָן‎ (felyeton)

References

1. “feuilleton”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
2. “feuilleton”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
3. “feuilleton”, in Collins English Dictionary.
4. “feuilleton”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

feuilleton n (plural feuilletons, diminutive feuilletonnetje n)

1. feuilleton (section of a newspaper)

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French

Etymology

feuillet +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fœj.tɔ̃/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

feuilleton m (plural feuilletons)

1. (television) soap opera
2. (literature) serial, feuilleton, literary article

Derived terms

• feuilletoniser
• feuilletoniste

 

Descendants

• → English: feuilleton
• → German: Feuilleton
• → Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone
• → Swedish: följetong

Further reading

• “feuilleton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe.jeˈtɔn/, /fe.jeˈton/[1], (careful style) /fø.jeˈtɔn/[2]
• Rhymes: -ɔn, -on
• Hyphenation: feuil‧le‧ton

Noun

feuilleton m

1. serialized novel

   Synonym: romanzo d'appendice

2. (television) soap opera

Related terms

• fogliettone

References

1. feuilleton in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
2. feuilleton in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Further reading

• feuilleton in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana