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fée

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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, masculine féetaud)

  1. fairy, fay

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Bulgarian: фе́я (féja)
  • Danish: fe
  • Dutch: fee
    • Afrikaans: fee
    • West Frisian: fee
  • German: Fee
  • Luxembourgish: Fee
  • Norwegian: fe
  • Russian: фе́я (féja)
  • Swedish: fe
  • Vietnamese: phê

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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

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