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See also: FET, Fet, and fèt

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-.

Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.

Verb

fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)

  1. (obsolete) To fetch.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

Noun

fet (plural fets)

  1. (obsolete) A piece.
    • 1627, Michael Drayton, The Quest of Cynthia, published 1810:
      That the bottom clear,
      Now lay'd with many a fet
      of seed pearl,

Etymology 3

Noun

fet (uncountable)

  1. (BDSM, attributive) Clipping of fetish.
    • 1997, NuBabyByte, “Iron Shackles, Bare Feet”, in alt.torture (Usenet):
      oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached.
    • 2003, Morgane, “Relatives turning up in the scene”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
      It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin fētō. Compare Daco-Romanian făta.

Alternative forms

Verb

fet (participle fitatã)

  1. to give birth, foal, litter, calve (of mammals)
Derived terms
  • fitalj, fitaljiu
  • fitari/fitare
  • fitat
  • fitãtoari

Etymology 2

From Latin fētus (“offspring, progreny”). Compare Daco-Romanian făt.

Alternative forms

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

  1. young child, boy
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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait. Compare also Spanish hecho.

Pronunciation

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

  1. fact

Derived terms

Participle

fet (feminine feta, masculine plural fets, feminine plural fetes)

  1. past participle of fer

Chuukese

Etymology

Contraction of föri + met

Contraction

fet

  1. what is someone doing?
    Ka fet? ― What are you doing?

Czech

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Etymology

Related to fetovat (“to do drugs; inhale, sniff”), of uncertain origin, but the "inhale" sense could be a derivation from Latin fetor (“stench, bad smell”), similar to Polish fetor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fet m inan

  1. (colloquial, expressive) junk, drugs

Declension

Declension of fet (hard masculine inanimate)
More information singular, plural ...

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Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse fet, from Proto-Germanic *fetą, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fet n (genitive singular fets, nominative plural fet)

  1. step
  2. (historical) a unit of measure equivalent to half an alin, or 3 lófar
  3. foot (unit of measure equivalent to 12 inches)

Declension

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse feitr.

Adjective

fet (neuter singular fett, definite singular and plural fete, comparative fetere, indefinite superlative fetest, definite superlative feteste)

  1. fat
  2. fatty (especially food)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • (meadow): (non-standard since 2012) fit

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fit f.

Noun

fet f (definite singular feta, indefinite plural feter, definite plural fetene)

  1. a grassy meadow, especially near a body of water
Inflection
More information singular, plural ...
  • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
  • Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
  • Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

Etymology 2

Noun

fet m (definite singular feten, indefinite plural fetar, definite plural fetane)

  1. (Nord-Gudbrandsdalen) a kamus, skin from feet of a moose or reindeer

References

  • “fet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • Alf Eriksen (1996), Ord og uttrykk frå Dovre (in Norwegian Nynorsk)
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Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

fēt

  1. plural of fōt

Descendants

  • Middle English: fet, feet

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin factus.

Verb

fet

  1. past participle of fere
  2. third-person singular present indicative of fere

Etymology 2

From Latin factum.

Noun

fet oblique singular, m (oblique plural fez or fetz, nominative singular fez or fetz, nominative plural fet)

  1. act; action
  2. fact
Descendants

References

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Swedish

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