Noun: fétiche
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fétiche |
| Plural m | fétiches |
Sample Sentences
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La sculpture caduveo […] se limite […] à des fétiches et des représentations de dieux toujours de petites dimensions. (The [art of] Caduveo sculpture […] is limited […] to fetishes and representations of gods who always have small dimensions.) [1958, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie structurale deux [Structural anthropology]:]
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Il affectait de redouter les détours de la chance; il portait un fétiche d'or au milieu de son trousseau de clés. (He feigned fear of fateful twists; he carried a golden charm amid the keys in his bunch.) [1939, Georges Duhamel, Le Combat contre les ombres [The Fight with Shadows]:]
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La possession et la contemplation du fétiche provoquent soit l'orgasme sexuel, soit simplement des jouissances sentimentales platoniques. (Fetish possession and contemplation provoke either sexual orgasm or simply platonic sentimental pleasures.) [1969, Robert Lafon, quoting Guiraud, Vocabulaire de psychopédagogie et de psychiatrie de l'enfant [Vocabulary of psychopedagogy and child psychiatry], Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (University Press of France), →ISBN, page 470, column 2, s.v. Fétichisme:]
Nouns inflected like fétiche
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
6. Proto-Italic *θakjō
7. Proto-Italic *fakjō
8. Latin faciō
9. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
10. Proto-Italic *-tos
11. Latin -tus
12. Latin factus
13. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
14. Proto-Italic *-ikos
15. Latin -īcus
16. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
17. Proto-Italic *-ijos
18. Proto-Italic *-ios
19. Old Latin -ios
20. Latin -ius
21. Latin -īcius
22. Latin factīcius
23. Portuguese feitiçobor.
24. French fétiche
25. Borrowed from Portuguese feitiço (“feigned, false; spell, witchcraft, amulet”), from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Compare the doublet factice (a borrowing directly from the Latin), as well as the inherited Old French faitis. See: Portuguese Nouns '
feitiço', Latin Nouns '
factīcius'.
Verbs referencing "fétiche"
English Nouns
fetish, Finnish Nouns
fetissi, Italian Nouns
feticcio, Czech Nouns
fetiš, Polish Nouns
fetysz, Portuguese Nouns
fetiche, Spanish Nouns
fetiche, Ukrainian Nouns
фетиш, Dutch Nouns
fetisj, German Nouns
Fetisch, Romanian Nouns
fetiș.
Translations