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English
Etymology
Clipping of foie gras, from French foie gras, from foie (“liver”) + gras (“fat”)
Noun
foie (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of foie gras.
2005, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 50, number 5, page 159:Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.
2006, Chuck Johnson, Blanche Johnson, Savor Idaho Cookbook:Season the foie and sear until dark golden brown. Drain off and reserve the foie, adding the fat back into the pan and bring heat back up.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver (as food)”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesed to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.
Pronunciation
Noun
foie m (plural foies)
- (anatomy, countable) liver
- (uncountable) liver (as food)
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Noun
foie f
- plural of foia
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”).
Noun
foie oblique singular, m (oblique plural foies, nominative singular foies, nominative plural foie)
- liver
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Ellipsis of foie gras, from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
Pronunciation
Noun
foie m (plural foies)
- foie (“foie gras”)