feixe

Galician

Alternative forms

• feixo, feix

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese feixe (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fascis, from fascio (“to bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with Portuguese feixe, Spanish haz, Catalan feix, Occitan fais, French faix, Italian fascio and Romanian fascie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfejʃe/ [ˈfej.ʃɪ]
• Rhymes: -ejʃe
• Hyphenation: fei‧xe

Noun

feixe m (plural feixes)

1. bundle

   Synonym: mada

2. sheaf
   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 219:

     Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar

     five flax sheafs: one threshed and four pending

   Synonym: mollo

3. (collective) faggot
   • 1301, M. Romaní Martinez, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, 3, page 1241:

     dous feyxes de rodriga

     two faggots of stakes

   Synonym: lote

4. lot (a number)
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419:

     Sisa das olas: Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona que trouxer carga d'olas de fora parte a vender aa dita çidade, que page de cada carga d'olas, duas brancas e de un costal d'olas, hua branca, e do feixe das olas que trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeiros

     Tax on the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a sack; and for the lot that they can bring on themselves, a coin; an two coins for each amphora

   Synonym: lote

5. lot (large quantity)

   Synonyms: lote, morea, mundo

6. bunch
7. winepress beam

Derived terms

• afeixar
• enfeixar

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “feixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “feixe”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “feyx”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “feixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “feixe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “feixe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Verb

feixe

1. inflection of feixen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• feixo (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese feixe, from Latin fascis, from fascio (“to bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰasko (“bundle, band”). Cognate with Galician feixe, Spanish haz, Catalan feix, Occitan fais, French faix, Italian fascio and Romanian fascie.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfe(j).ʃi/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯).ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfe(j).ʃi/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯).ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfe(j).ʃe/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯).ʃe]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɐj.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɐj.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfej.ʃɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfej.ʃɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ʃɨ/

• Homophone: feche
• Hyphenation: fei‧xe

Noun

feixe m (plural feixes)

1. bundle
2. sheaf
3. (collective) faggot (bundle of wood)
4. portion

Related terms

• faixa

Further reading

• “feixe”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “feixe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025