fête

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See also: fete, Fete, fêté, fetĕ, and fețe

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fête.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /feɪt/, /fɛt/
Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

fête (plural fêtes)

Alternative spelling of fete

Verb

fête (third-person singular simple present fêtes, present participle fêting, simple past and past participle fêted)

Alternative spelling of fete
- 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎:
  This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.

Anagrams

ETFE, feet, teef

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French feste, from Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɛt/
- (France, Paris, une fête) IPA^(key):
  ^help
- Homophones: fait, faite, faîte, faites, faîtes, fêtes, fêtent
IPA^(key): /fɛːt/ (older, now chiefly Belgium and Canada)
- (Belgium, une fête) IPA^(key):
- (Canada, Estrie, une fête) IPA^(key):
  ^help
- (Canada, Abitibi, informal) IPA^(key):
  ^help
- (Canada, Ottawa, informal) IPA^(key):
  ^help
- Homophones: faîte, faîtes, fêtes, fêtent

Noun

fête f (plural fêtes)

winter holidays (always in plural)
Tu fais quoi pour les fêtes (de fin d’année)? ― What will you do for the (winter) holidays? (literally, “the end-of-year holidays”)
party
Synonyms: teuf, partie, nouba

Je fais une fête chez moi ce soir! ― I'm throwing a party at my place tonight! (literally, “I'm doing a party”)
(Christianity) name day
Le 18 mai, c’est la fête des Éric. ― May 18 is the name day of people named Eric.
(Canada, Louisiana) birthday
Bonne fête! ― Happy birthday!

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: fête
→ German: Fete
→ Polish: feta

Verb

fête

inflection of fêter:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

“fête”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Pronunciation

(Jersey) IPA^(key): /feit/
Audio (Jersey) (file)

Noun

fête f (plural fêtes)

(Jersey, Guernsey) holiday

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