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fe

1. Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).

fe (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of f.e.

fe (transitive past fee, intransitive past feeɛ, future bɛfe, progressive refe, perfect afe) (Twi)

1. to vomit, disgorge
2. to spew

   Synonym: fe gu

3. to suck

   Synonyms: fefe, twe

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *fēdes, from Latin fidēs.^[1] The Vulgar Latin form is alternatively reconstructed as Vulgar Latin *fe.des.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /fɛ/

fe f (plural fe, definite feja, definite plural fetë)

1. religion

• fetar m, fetare f
• pafe
• pafeja

• “fe”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026

Inherited from Latin fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-. First attested in the 12th century.^[1] Compare Occitan fe.

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfe̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfe]

• Audio:

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fe f (plural fes)

1. faith

• fidel

Inherited from Latin fēnum.

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfe̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfe]

fe m (plural fes)

1. (archaic or dialectal) hay

   Synonym: fenc

• fé (pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfe̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfe]

fe

1. (Balearic) inflection of fer:
   1. third-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fe”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Middle English fe (“livestock, cattle”), from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief, both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”).

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛː/

fe m (plural feow)

1. fee
2. feudal estate, fief

• “fe” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

From French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fe c (singular definite feen, plural indefinite feer)

1. fairy, fay (mythical being (of female gender))

• alf c

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: fe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fe, from Latin fidem. Compare Galician fe and Portuguese fé.

fe f (plural fes)

1. faith

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fel, from Vulgar Latin *felem.

• fel (Mañegu, Valverdeñu)

fe f (uncountable)

1. (Lagarteiru) bile

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 142

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fe, from Latin fidem. Compare Fala fe and Portuguese fé.

• IPA^(key): [fɛ]

fe f (uncountable)

1. faith
2. confidence, belief

• “fe”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

fe

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

From f +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /fe/, /fɛ/

fe (plural fe-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter F/f.

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

fe

1. The katakana syllable フェ (fe) in Hepburn romanization.

fe f (Hebrew spelling פ׳י)^[1]

1. alternative form of fey
   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[1], volumes 26–28, page 9:

     La kreensia en la yegada del Mashiah, punto sentral en la fe de los mekubalim, se ilustra en la sigiente leyenda sovre Rabi Yitshak Luria: […]

     The trust in the Messiah's arrival, [a] central point in the cabalists' faith, is illustrated in the following legend of Rabi Yitshak Luria…

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fe

1. (Haketia) alternative form of fue

• IPA^(key): [fè]
• Hyphenation: fe

fẹ̃

1. (intransitive) to run

Conjugation of -fẹ̃- (intransitive)
		singular			plural			indefinite
		I	II	III	I	II	III
past indicative	long	má fẹ̃	nyí fẹ̃	fẹ̃	ãmã fẹ̃	ãnyĩ fẹ̃	fẹ̃ kí	ọ́fẹ̃
	short	áfẹ̃	ị́fẹ̃	ọfẹ̃	ãfẹ̃	ị̃fẹ̃	ọfẹ̃ kí
nonpast indicative	L.	má fẹ̃1)	nyí fẹ̃1)	kọ́fẹ̃1)	ãmá fẹ̃1)	ãnyí fẹ̃1)	kọ́fẹ̃1) kí	á'di fẹ̃1)
	B.	má fẹ́	nyí fẹ́	kụ́fẹ́	ãmã fẹ́	ãnyĩ fẹ́	kụ́fẹ́ kí	á fẹ́
imperative	L.	mã fẹ̃	nyĩ fẹ̃	kọ̃fẹ̃	ãmã fẹ̃	ãnyĩ fẹ̃	kọ̃fẹ̃ kí	ọ́fẹ̃1)
	B.	ãmá fẹ̃	ãnyí fẹ̃	kụ̃fẹ̃			kụ̃fẹ̃ kí	á ̣fẹ̃1)
		simple subordinate	objective subordinate	subjective subordinate I		subjective subordinate II		indirect subordinate
				singular	plural	singular	plural
		fẹ̃ka	fẹ̃lẹ́	fẹ̃rẹ	fẹ̃'bá	fẹ̃'dị	fẹ̃ka	fẹ̃jọ́
1) The root is preceded by a low floating tone, which is realised on the final vowel of the preceding syllable, or as a contour tone on the first vowel of the root.

• Mairi Blackings; Nigel Fabb (2003), A Grammar of Ma'di, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 36

fe

1. nonstandard spelling of fē

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Old English feoh.

fe

1. livestock, cattle
   • a. 1500, Robert Henryson, Robin and Makyne:

     Robin sat on gude green hill,
     Kepand a flock of fe

     Robin sat on a good green hill,
     keeping a flock of cattle.

• “fe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): [feː]

From French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fe m (definite singular feen, indefinite plural feer, definite plural feene)

1. a fairy (mythical being)

• tannfe

From Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu.

fe n (definite singular feet, indefinite plural fe, definite plural fea or feene)

1. cattle, livestock
2. fool, blockhead

• fjærfe
• storfe

• “fe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fé, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu. Cognates include English fee.

fe n (definite singular feet, indefinite plural fe, definite plural fea)

1. (uncountable) livestock, cattle
2. (countable) farm animal
3. a blockhead, fool
4. (collective, archaic) riches, wealth, property

• fjørfe
• moskusfe
• storfe

From French fée (“fairy”), from Late Latin fāta, from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fe f (definite singular fea, indefinite plural feer, definite plural feene)

1. a fairy (mythical being)

• tannfe

• “fe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan fe, from Old Occitan fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-.

• Audio (Béarn):

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fe f (plural fes)

1. faith

Inherited from Latin fidem.

• IPA^(key): /fɛ/

fe f (plural fes)

1. faith
2. belief

• Fala: fe
• Galician: fe
• Portuguese: fé

• Universo Cantigas - "fe"

• fei

From Latin fidem.

fe f (oblique plural fes, nominative singular fe, nominative plural fes)

1. faith

• Occitan: fe

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fides”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 503

Inherited from Latin fidēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).

fe f

1. (religion) faith
2. confidence; trust (faith)

• fee

• Ladino: fe, fey, פ׳יי, פ׳י
• Spanish: fe

Borrowed from Arabic.

fe

1. look!

• Spanish: he

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “fe”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 253

Natural expression. First attested in 1624–1639.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: fe

fe

1. (colloquial) yuck! ick! expressing disgust

   Synonyms: fu, fuj, pfu, pfuj

2. (colloquial) no! bad! reprimand of behavior

   Synonym: fuj

fe (comparative bardziej fe, superlative najbardziej fe, no derived adverb)

1. (childish) icky, yucky

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:zły

• “fe”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “fe”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “fe”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “fe”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “fe”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 727

fe

1. obsolete form of fă

• fe in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• fé (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish fe, fee, from Latin fidēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe/ [ˈfe]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: fe

fe f (uncountable)

1. faith

fe

1. inflection of far:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• “fe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• fé (not listed in SAOL)

First used in 1746, from French fée, based on vulgar Latin fata (“goddess of fate”)

• Rhymes: -eː

fe c

1. fairy (mythological being)

• The definite form feen is the only one in SAOL 6, an alternative one in SAOL 8 and not listed in SAOL 13.

• fedrottning
• felik
• fesaga
• feslott
• fevärld

• fé in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• Fe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
• fe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

fe (definite accusative feyi, plural feler)

1. The name of the Latin script letter F/f.

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

fe

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ف

fe (definite accusative feni, plural feler)

1. The name of the Latin script letter F/f.

• (Latin-script letter names) harp; a, be, çe, de, e, ä, ef, ge, ha, i, je, že, ke, el, em, en, eň, o, ö, pe, re, se, şa, te, u, ü, we, y, ýy, ze

• IPA^(key): /veː/
• Rhymes: -eː

fe

1. he, him

Fe is used in South Wales and is a variant of e. The choice between e and fe is dependent on grammatical and euphonic considerations. The forms o and fo are used in the north.

fe (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)

1. (South Wales) used with inflected verbs to mark affirmative statements.

   Fe werthes i hanner dwsin.

   I sold half a dozen.

• This particle is optional and may only be used before inflected verbs in the preterite, future or conditional in affirmative statements, e.g. fe fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”).
• Some speakers may drop the particle but keep the resulting soft mutation, e.g. fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”) instead of bydda i'n mynd.

• mi (North Wales)
• y (literary)