Noun: foie
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | foie |
| Plural m | foies |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like foie
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
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 metathesised to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge. See: Latin Nouns '
iecur fīcātum', Italian Nouns '
fegato', Catalan Nouns '
fetge'.
Verbs referencing "foie"
Catalan Nouns
fetge, Middle English Nouns
feye.
Translations