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Esperanto

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feto
Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfeto]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: fe‧to

Noun

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feto (accusative singular feton, plural fetoj, accusative plural fetojn)

  1. fetus
    • 1993, Donald Broadribb, transl., La Respubliko, Matraville: Libroservo de la Aŭstralia Esperanto-Asocio, translation of πολιτεια by Plato, published 2000, →ISBN:
      Personoj pliaĝaj rajtas koiti laŭvole, sed se koncipiĝos rezultas, ili devas abortigi la feton aŭ ĝin mortigi post la nasko.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

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Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowing from Esperanto feto, Latin feto, Italian feto, Portuguese feto, English fetus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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feto (plural feti)

  1. fetus

Derived terms

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin fētus, probably borrowed.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛto
  • Hyphenation: fè‧to

Noun

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feto m (plural feti)

  1. fetus

Derived terms

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See also

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Latin

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Etymology

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From fētus (bearing young, fruitful) +‎ .

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fētō (present infinitive fētāre, perfect active fētāvī, supine fētātum); first conjugation

  1. (passive voice) to bring forth, breed
  2. (active voice) to impregnate; to make fruitful

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Aromanian: fet, fitare
  • Catalan: feda
  • Neapolitan: fetà
  • Piedmontese: fe
  • Romanian: făta, fătare
  • Sardinian: fedare, afedai
  • Sicilian: fitari
  • Spanish: jedar

References

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  • feto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • feto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

North Moluccan Malay

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Etymology

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From Ternate feto

Pronunciation

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Verb

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feto

  1. Alternative form of bafeto

Derived terms

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛtu
  • Hyphenation: fe‧to

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (offspring).

Noun

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feto m (plural fetos)

  1. (embryology) fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)
  2. (biology) fetus (unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal)
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Etymology 2

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From earlier fento, from Old Galician-Portuguese *feeyto, from Latin filictum (place abounding in ferns), from filix, filicem (“fern”).

Cognate with Galician fento, fieito and Spanish helecho.

Noun

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feto m (plural fetos)

  1. (Portugal) fern (any of a group of plants in the division Pteridophyta)
    Synonym: (Brazil) samambaia
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Spanish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin fētus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfeto/ [ˈfe.t̪o]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Syllabification: fe‧to

Noun

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feto m (plural fetos)

  1. fetus
  2. (derogatory, slang, Spain) a hideous person

Further reading

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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feto

  1. (transitive) to complain about

Conjugation

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Conjugation of feto
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tofeto fofeto mifeto
2nd nofeto nifeto
3rd Masculine ofeto ifeto, yofeto
Feminine mofeto
Neuter ifeto
- archaic

Descendants

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  • North Moluccan Malay: bafeto

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

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Etymology

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Compare feton.

Noun

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feto

  1. woman