fee – English noun declension

English noun forms of fee

Noun: fee
Singularfee
Pluralfees

Sample Sentences

  • late fee
  • license fee
  • admission fee
  • activation fee
  • service fee
  • legal fees
  • consulting fees
  • Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting. [2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:]
  • Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;
  • And was the safeguard of the west: the worth
  • Of Venice did not fall below her birth,
  • Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. [1807, William Wordsworth, “On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic”, in Poems in Two Volumes:]
  • What doth the poor man's son inherit?
  • Stout muscles and a sinewy heart,
  • A hardy frame, a hardier spirit;
  • King of two hands, he does his part
  • In every useful toil and art;
  • A heritage, it seems to me,
  • A king might wish to hold in fee. [1844, James Russell Lowell, The Heritage:]
  • This England, this sea-lion of the sea,
  • By ignorant demagogues is held in fee,
  • Who love her not: Dear God! is this the land
  • Which bare a triple empire in her hand
  • When Cromwell spake the word Democracy! [a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'To Milton', in Poems:]
  • Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time. [1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121:]
  • For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäi (“cattle, livestock”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Cimbrian biighe, viighe (“animal, beast”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), German Viech (“animal, beast”), Vieh (“livestock”), German Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Luxembourgish Véi (“cattle”), Vilamovian fi, fī, fii, fiih (“cattle, livestock”), Yiddish פֿי (fi), פֿיך (fikh, “cattle, livestock”), Danish and Faroese fæ (“cattle, livestock”), Icelandic fé (“assets, livestock, money”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fe (“cattle, livestock”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu, “possessions, property; riches, wealth; money”); also Latin pecū (“cattle”), Old Prussian pecku (“cattle”), Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece, wool”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎 (pasu, “livestock”), Bactrian ποσο (poso, “sheep”), Central Kurdish پەز (pez, “sheep”), Northern Kurdish pez (“sheep”), Ossetian фыс (fys, “sheep”), Talysh pəs, пәс (“sheep”), Sanskrit पशु (paśu, “cattle”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fee', Old English Nouns 'feoh', Dutch Nouns 'vee', German Nouns 'Viech', Icelandic Nouns 'fé', Swedish Nouns 'fä', Latin Nouns 'pecū'.

Verbs referencing "fee"

English Nouns money, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns fe, Dutch Nouns vee, Icelandic Nouns fé, German Nouns Vieh, Danish Nouns fæ, Gothic Nouns 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿.