fet

See also: FET, Fet, and fèt

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛt/

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

fet (plural fets)

  1. (obsolete) A piece.
    • Michael Drayton
      The bottom clear,
      Now laid with many a fet
      Of seed pearl.

Etymology 3

Noun

fet (plural not attested)

  1. (BDSM, slang) fetish
    • 1997, "NuBabyByte", Iron Shackles, Bare Feet (on newsgroup alt.torture)
      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 (on newsgroup soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm)
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin fētō. Compare Daco-Romanian făta.

Alternative forms

Verb

fet (past participle fitatã)

  1. (of mammals) give birth, foal, litter, calve

Derived terms

  • fitari/fitare
  • fitat
  • fitalj, fitaljiu
  • fitãtoari

Etymology 2

From Latin fētus. Compare Daco-Romanian făt.

Alternative forms

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

  1. young child, boy

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

  1. fact

Verb

fet

  1. past participle of fer

Chuukese

Etymology

Contraction of föri + met

Contraction

fet

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

Icelandic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fetą, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛːt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːt

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

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

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feːt/

Noun

fēt

  1. plural of fōt

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

  1. act; action
  2. fact

Descendants

References

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wintos (“wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲed/

Noun

fet f

  1. whistling, hissing, the sound of a sword cleaving the air
  2. (musical intrument) pipe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fēter, from Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feːt/
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Adjective

fet (comparative fetare, superlative fetast)

  1. fat, obese (about people or animals)
    Fetare gubbe har jag nog aldrig sett tidigare.
    I don't think I've seen such a fat guy before.
  2. containing much fat (about food)
  3. being especially fertile, profitable or lucrative; (slang) good, extraordinary, phat (a general intensifier, usually positive)
    Du missade en riktigt fet chans.
    You missed quite a good opportunity.
    Shit, vilken fet bil du har köpt!
    Damn, what a nice/cool/phat car you've bought!

Inflection

Inflection of fet
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular fet fetare fetast
Neuter singular fett fetare fetast
Plural feta fetare fetast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 fete fetare fetaste
All feta fetare fetaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse *fit, from Proto-Germanic *fetą.

Noun

fet n

  1. footstep, step
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