faix

English

Interjection

faix

1. (Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of fecks.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fais, from Latin fascis (“bundle, burden”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophones: fais, fait

Noun

faix m (invariable)

1. (literary or dated) burden, heavy load

Derived terms

• affaisser
• arrière-faix
• portefaix

Related terms

• fasce

Further reading

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

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese 細 (MC sejH).

Adjective

faix 

1. small