fetge

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”) (compare Occitan fetge, French foie, Spanish hígado), ellipsis of Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”). First attested in 1288.

Pronunciation

Noun

fetge m (plural fetges)

  1. (anatomy) liver
    (idiomatic) de sang i fetge ― with violent and gory details (literally, “of blood and liver”) used to describe a truculent show
    (idiomatic) treure el fetge ― to make great efforts to achieve something (literally, “to throw up the liver”)
    (idiomatic) posar-se pedres al fetge ― to worry about something (literally, “to have stones in the liver”)
    setze jutges d'un jutjat mengen fetge d'un penjat
    a tongue twister
    (literally, “sixteen judges of a court eat liver from a hanged man”)
    the quintessential Catalan tongue twister to test your voiced sibillant consonants

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “fetge”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Further reading

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Catalan fetge), from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”), attested from the 13th century.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fetge m (plural fetges)

  1. (anatomy) liver

References

  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 271.
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