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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fetid (comparative more fetid, superlative most fetid)
- Foul-smelling, stinking.
I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.
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Translations
foul-smelling
- Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haśıq)
- Bulgarian: вонящ (bg) (vonjašt), зловонен (bg) (zlovonen)
- Catalan: fètid (ca)
- Czech: páchnoucí (cs), smrdutý (cs), zapáchající
- Dutch: walmend (nl), stinkend (nl)
- Finnish: löyhkäävä (fi), pahanhajuinen (fi)
- French: fétide (fr)
- German: stinkend (de)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls)
- Greek: δύσοσμος (el) m (dýsosmos), δυσώδης (el) m or f (dysódis)
- Ido: fetida (io)
- Italian: fetido (it)
- Latin: fetidus
- Malay:
- Jawi: هاڽير (of meat)
- Rumi: hanyir (of meat)
- Maori: hāruru, koeo
- Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır)
- Polish: cuchnący (pl)
- Portuguese: fétido (pt)
- Romanian: fetid (ro)
- Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij), зловонный (ru) (zlovonnyj)
- Spanish: fétido (es)
- Swedish: stinkande (sv)
- Tagalog: mabaho
- Turkish: kokmuş (tr), kokuşmuş (tr), kokuşuk (tr)
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See also
Noun
fetid (plural fetids)
- (rare) The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fétide, from Latin foetidus.
Adjective
fetid m or n (feminine singular fetidă, masculine plural fetizi, feminine and neuter plural fetide)
- fetid
Declension
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