fiche

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːʃ/
• Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun

fiche (plural fiches)

1. a microfiche

Anagrams

• cheif, chief

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fiche n (plural fiches or fichen)

1. (board games, card games) chip, token
2. (Belgium) form (blank template on paper)
3. (information science) card, like a punch card, microfiche or file card

Etymology

From ficher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiʃ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

fiche f (plural fiches)

1. card (in a file)
2. plug

Verb

fiche

1. first-person singular present indicative of ficher
2. third-person singular present indicative of ficher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ficher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ficher
5. second-person singular imperative of ficher

Further reading

• “fiche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Old Irish fiche, from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲɪhə/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲɪçə/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fʲiː/

Numeral

fiche

1. (cardinal) twenty

Noun

fiche m (genitive singular fichead, nominative plural fichidí)

1. twenty, a group of twenty, a score

Mutation

Further reading

• "fiche" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “fiche” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Noun

fiche f (invariable)

1. chip (gambling)

Noun

fiche f pl

1. plural of fica

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wikantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲixʲe/

Numeral

fiche (genitive singular fichet, nominative plural fichit)

1. twenty

Mutation

Further reading

• “fiche” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Verb

fiche

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fichar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fichar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fichar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fichar.