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Latin
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-. See also Latin furvus (“dark, swarthy”), fūmus (“smoke”), fūlīgō (“soot”) and fimus.
Pronunciation
Verb
fēteō (present infinitive fētēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stems
- to have a bad smell, stink
Conjugation
No perfect or supine forms.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance: (via a variant *fĕtĕre):
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- “feteo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- feteo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.