fe

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *fēdes, from Latin fidēs.[1]

• IPA^(key): /fɛ/

fe f (indefinite plural fe, definite singular feja, definite plural fetë)

1. religion

• fetar m, fetare f
• pafe
• pafeja

From Latin fidēs, fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-. Attested from the 12th century.[1] Compare Occitan fe, French foi, Spanish fe.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈfə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfe/

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fe f (plural fes)

1. faith

• fidel

• “fe” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fe” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fe” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fe c (singular definite feen, plural indefinite feer)

1. fairy, fay (mythical being (of female gender))

• alf c

From Old Portuguese fe, from Latin fidēs, fidem.

• IPA^(key): [fɛ]

fe f (uncountable)

1. faith
2. confidence, belief

• “fe” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

fe

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

• IPA^(key): /fe/, /fɛ/

fe (plural fe-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter F/f.

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

fe

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぇ
2. Rōmaji transcription of フェ

From Old English feoh.

fe

1. livestock, cattle
   • a. 1500, Robert Henryson, "Robin and Makyne":

     Robin sat on gude green hill,

     Kepand a flock of fe

• “fe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): [feː]

From French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fe m (definite singular feen, indefinite plural feer, definite plural feene)

1. a fairy (mythical being)

• tannfe

From Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu.

fe n (definite singular feet, indefinite plural fe, definite plural fea or feene)

1. cattle, livestock
2. fool, blockhead

• fjærfe
• storfe

• “fe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu. Cognates include English fee.

fe n (definite singular feet, indefinite plural fe, definite plural fea)

1. (uncountable) livestock, cattle
2. (countable) farm animal
3. a blockhead, fool
4. (collective, archaic) riches, wealth, property

• fjørfe
• moskusfe
• storfe

From French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fe f (definite singular fea, indefinite plural feer, definite plural feene)

1. a fairy (mythical being)

• tannfe

• “fe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan fe, from Old Occitan fidēs, fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-.

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fe f (plural fes)

1. faith

• fei

From Latin fidēs, fidem.

fe f (oblique plural fes, nominative singular fe, nominative plural fes)

1. faith

• Occitan: fe

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fides”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 503

From Latin fidēs, fidem.

fe f

1. faith

• Galician: fe
• Portuguese: fé

fe

1. Obsolete form of fă.

• fe in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Old Spanish fe, fee, from Latin fidēs, fidem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe/ [ˈfe]

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: fe

fe f (uncountable)

1. faith

• fiel
• fiar

• “fe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• fé (not listed in SAOL)

First used in 1746, from French fée, based on vulgar Latin fata (“goddess of fate”)

• Rhymes: -eː

fe c

1. fairy (mythological being)

• The definite form feen is the only one in SAOL 6, an alternative one in SAOL 8 and not listed in SAOL 13.

• fedrottning
• felik
• fesaga
• feslott
• fevärld

• fé in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• Fe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
• fe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

fe (definite accusative, plural feler)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

fe

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ف

fe (definite accusative feni, plural feler)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

• (Latin-script letter names) harp; a, be, çe, de, e, ä, ef, ge, ha, i, je, že, ke, el, em, en, eň, o, ö, pe, re, se, şa, te, u, ü, we, y, ýy, ze

• IPA^(key): /veː/
• Rhymes: -eː

fe

1. he, him

Fe is used in South Wales and is a variant of e. The choice between e and fe is dependent on grammatical and euphonic considerations. The forms o and fo are used in the north.

fe (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)

1. (South Wales) used with inflected verbs to mark affirmative statements.

   Fe werthes i hanner dwsin.

   I sold half a dozen.

• This particle is optional and may only be used before inflected verbs in the preterite, future or conditional in affirmative statements, e.g. fe fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”).
• Some speakers may drop the particle but keep the resulting soft mutation, e.g. fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”) instead of bydda i'n mynd.

• mi (North Wales)