fi

• enPR: fē, fī, IPA^(key): /fiː/, /faɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -aɪ
• Homophones: fee or fie

fi

1. (music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the fourth note of a major scale.

Abbreviation

fi (uncountable)

1. (in combination) Abbreviation of fidelity. (e.g. in hi-fi or wi-fi)
2. (in combination) Abbreviation of fiction. (e.g. in sci-fi)

The word if spelled backwards, introduced in the ALGOL 68 Report (1968) as a terminator for an if clause.

fi

1. (computer science) Reserved word, in some programming languagess, signaling the end of an "if" program instruction.

   In ALGOL 68 the if clause must be terminated by fi (which is if spelt backwards).

• endif, end-if

• IF, if

From Latin filius.

fi m (plural fis)

1. son

• filleu
• fillôt

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfi/

From Old Occitan fin, from Latin fīnis.

fi f (plural fins)

1. finish; the end

• en fi
• per fi

From the same source as the above (with similar occurrences in most Romance languages), or less likely, possibly originally from fidus, which also gave Old Occitan fi, phonetically[1].

fi (feminine fina, masculine plural fins, feminine plural fines)

1. fine, thin
2. soft, smooth
3. sharp, keen

• finament
• finesa
• finor

Borrowed from Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

fi f (plural fis)

1. Phi; the Greek letter Φ (lowercase φ).

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

From French fi.

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fi

1. For shame!

   "Jes, mi frapis mian frateton kaj mi ne bedaŭras ĝin!" "Ho, fi!"

   "Yes, I hit my little brother and I'm not sorry about it!" "Oh, for shame!"

   Fi al vi! ― Shame on you!

fi

1. water

• ASJP, citing W. Baron, Kwomtari Survey (1983, SIL)

Imitative.

• IPA^(key): /fi/

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• Homophones: fie, fient, fies

fi

1. (archaic) faugh, fie

• faire fi

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

From Latin fīlius.

fi m (plural fis)

1. son

• fie
• fioç

From French fille (“girl, daughter”).

fi

1. girl
2. daughter

See under fiú.

fi (plural fiak)

1. (archaic, today only in compounds) son, child, offspring (of a human or an animal)

   Synonym: fiú

2. (archaic, today only in compounds) a smaller part of a building or a piece of furniture, cf. fiók, ’drawer’

The accusative and the plural form can also be fiat and fiak, respectively, although fit, fik (the shorter versions) are more usual here.[1]

The possessive-suffixed forms can also be fim etc., although the fiam etc. forms (the longer versions) are more usual here.[1]

• atyafi
• baromfi
• divatfi
• egyházfi
• hadfi
• harcfi
• hazafi
• honfi
• fiók
• királyfi
• kurafi
• múzsafi
• nyúlfi
• rókafi
• szerencsefi
• úrfi
• világfi

• fi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

fi

1. (rare, literary) yuck, ugh, boo (expression of disgust or contempt, sometimes like a symbolic spitting)

   Synonyms: fuj, pfuj

• fi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

From Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

fi (plural fik) (the plural form is rare)

1. Phi; the Greek letter Φ (lowercase φ).

(suffixed forms are rare)

fi

1. To.
   • 1997, Mr. Vegas, Heads High (song):

     Mi wan fi hear yuh scream.

     "I want to hear you scream."

   • 2002, Sean Paul, Get Busy (song):

     Me want fi see you get live ‘pon the riddim

   • 2006, Otelemate G. Harry, 'Jamaican Creole', in The Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 33, no. 1:

     im rap op ina wan jakit fi kiip aut di kuol.

     "He wrapped up in a warm jacket to keep out the cold."

fi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぃ
2. Rōmaji transcription of フィ

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fiː/

fī

1. pah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of disgust

   Fi, fi fetet!

   Pah, it stinks!

• English: fy, fie

fī

1. second-person singular present passive imperative of faciō

• fi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fi in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• phi (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /fi/

fi m (plural fi)

1. phi (name of the Greek letter Φ)

• фи (Moldavian Cyrillic spelling)

Suppletive verb formed from Latin sum, fuī, with the infinitive and subjunctive forms replaced by fierī, present active infinitive of fīō. Latin sum derives from Proto-Italic *ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“I am, I exist”), while fīō and fuī both derive from Proto-Italic *fuiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow, become, come into being, appear”).

• IPA^(key): [fi]

a fi (third-person singular present este or e, past participle fost) 4th conj.

1. to be

• One can also use e as an informal variant of the third-person singular present tense, este.
• The second entries in the simple perfect row represent the informal variants.

• ființă
• fiindcă
• fire

• fi in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• (Rumantsch Grischun) fieu
• (Sursilvan) fiug
• (Sutsilvan) fia, fiac
• (Puter, Vallader) fö

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

fi m

1. (Surmiran) fire

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi/
• Rhymes: -i

fi f (plural fíes)

1. phi; the Greek letter Φ, φ

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

• IPA^(key): /viː/

fi

1. me