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

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

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

fe f (plural fes)

1. faith

• fidel

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

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. (obsolete) auxiliary to form the past tense

   fe creder ― believed

fe

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

• 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 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

From Old Norse fé

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

1. livestock, cattle
2. a blockhead, fool

• fjørfe
• moskusfe
• storfe

• “fe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fei

From Latin fidēs, fidem.

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

1. faith

• Catalan: fe
• Occitan: fe

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “fides”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 30, page 503

From Latin fidēs, fidem.

fe f

1. faith

• Galician: fe
• Portuguese: fé

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe/

fe f (uncountable)

1. faith

• buena fe

• 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 (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 ^{(Category: tk:Latin letter names)}

• IPA^(key): /veː/

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 verbs other than bod to mark affirmative statements.

• mi (North Wales)