fée

fée

See also: fee, Fee, fêe, feë, fe'e, and fɛɛ́

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fae, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada, Italian fata, Spanish hada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe/

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• Rhymes: -e

Noun

fée f (plural fées)

1. fairy, fay

Derived terms

• conte de fées
• doigts de fée
• fée des dents
• fée du logis
• fée verte
• Morgane la fée

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: фе́я (féja)
• → Danish: fe
• → Dutch: fee
• → English: féerie
• → German: Fee
• → Luxembourgish: Fee
• → Norwegian: fe
• → Russian: фе́я (féja)
• → Swedish: fe
• → Vietnamese: phê

Further reading

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

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Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

Noun

fée f (plural fées)

1. (Jersey) fairy