foin
See also: fóin
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔɪn/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɪn
Etymology 1
From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”).
Noun
foin (plural foins)
- (archaic) A thrust.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XII, lv:
- They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain, / Nor blow nor foin they struck or thrust in vain.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XII, lv:
Verb
foin (third-person singular simple present foins, present participle foining, simple past and past participle foined)
- (archaic) To thrust with a sword; to stab at.
- 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff
- These Fastulfrs and Falsts could drink as well as they could foin or fight, and this has also been the case with me.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 25:
- He stroke, he soust, he foynd, he hewd, he lasht,
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
- They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore / Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore.
- 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff
- (archaic) To prick; to sting.
Etymology 2
From French fouine (“a marten”).
Noun
foin (plural foins)
- The beech marten (Martes foina, syn. Mustela foina).
- A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], OCLC 1238111360:
- He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins.
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Anagrams
- Fino, Info., ONFI, fino, info, info-
French
Etymology
From Middle French foin, from Old French fein, from Latin fēnum, monophthongized variant of Latin faenum (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-no-, from *dʰeh₁(y)-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fwɛ̃/
audio (file)
Noun
foin m (plural foins)
- hay
Derived terms
- bête à manger du foin
- chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin
- faire tout un foin de
- meule de foin
- rhume des foins
Related terms
- faner
- fenaison
- fenasse
- fenil
Further reading
- “foin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- fion, info
Old French
Alternative forms
- fain
- fein
Etymology
From earlier fein, from Latin faenum.
Noun
foin m (oblique plural foinz, nominative singular foinz, nominative plural foin)
- hay
Related terms
- fener
Descendants
- French: foin
- Norman: fain