fiche

fiche

See also: fiché

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːʃ/
• Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun

fiche (plural fiches)

1. a microfiche

Anagrams

• cheif, chief

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (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

• (chip): jeton (Belgium)
• (form): formulier

(file card):

• kaart
• steekkaart

Hypernyms

• (file card): kaart

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French

Etymology

From ficher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiʃ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

fiche f (plural fiches)

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

Derived terms

• fiche S

Descendants

Descendants

• → Dutch: fiche
• → English: fiche
• → North Levantine Arabic: فيش‎ (fīš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: فیش‎
  • Turkish: fiş
• → Portuguese: ficha
• → Spanish: ficha
  • → Catalan: fitxa
• → Vietnamese: phích

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

• ne pas en fiche une rame

Further reading

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

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Irish

Irish cardinal numbers

<  19	20	21  >
Cardinal : fiche     Ordinal : fichiú

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲɪhə/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲɪçə/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fʲiː/

Numeral

fiche

1. twenty

Usage notes

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

• fiche carr ― twenty cars
• fiche bean ― twenty women
• fiche bliain ― twenty years

Derived terms

• fiche a ceathair
• fiche a cúig
• fiche a dó
• fiche a haon
• fiche a hocht
• fiche a naoi
• fiche a sé
• fiche a seacht
• fiche a trí

 

Noun

fiche m (genitive singular fichead, nominative plural fichidí)

1. twenty, a group of twenty, a score

   Synonym: scór

Declension

Declension of fiche

Fifth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative fiche fichidí Vocative a fhiche a fhichidí Genitive fichead fichidí Dative fiche fichid (in certain phrases) fichidí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fiche na fichidí Genitive an fhichead na bhfichidí Dative leis an bhfiche don fhiche leis na fichidí

• Plural used after numerals: fichid

Derived terms

• dhá fhichead
• trí fichid
• ceithre fichid

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fiche”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 50

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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

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Middle English

Noun

fiche

1. Alternative form of fecche

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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. 41^b2

     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

• Irish: fiche
• Manx: feed
• Scottish Gaelic: fichead

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
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

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Spanish

Verb

fiche

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