foie
English
Etymology
Clipping of foie gras, from French foie gras, from foie (“liver”) + gras (“fat”)
Noun
foie (uncountable) (lit. liver)
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of foie gras.
- 2005, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 50, number 5, page 159)
- Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.
- 2006, Chuck Johnson, Blanche Johnson, Savor Idaho Cookbook
- Season the foie and sear until dark golden brown. Drain off and reserve the foie, adding the fat back into the pan and bring heat back up.
- 2005, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 50, number 5, page 159)
French
Etymology
From Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver (as food)”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesed to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fwa/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -a
- Homophones: foi, foies, fois, Foix
- Hyphenation: foie
Noun
foie m (plural foies)
- (anatomy, countable) liver
- (uncountable) liver (as food)
Derived terms
- avoir les foies
- foie gras
- huile de foie de morue
Further reading
- “foie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
foie f
- plural of foia
Old French
Alternative forms
- feie
Etymology
From earlier feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”).
Noun
foie m (oblique plural foies, nominative singular foies, nominative plural foie)
- liver
Descendants
- French: foie
- Norman: faie
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of foie gras, from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfwa/ [ˈfwa]
- Rhymes: -a
Noun
foie m (plural foies)
- foie (“foie gras”); Short for foie gras.