Fex
German edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps shortened from older pseudo-Latin Narrifex (15–17th c.), from Narr (“fool”) + Latin -fex.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Fex m (strong or weak, genitive Fexes or Fexen, plural Fexe or Fexen, feminine Fexin)
- (colloquial, dated, Southern Germany, Austria) enthusiast, freak
- Synonym: Narr
- 1832, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Finstere Gallerie”, in Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust, Part Two][1]:
- Mit Hexen-Fexen, mit Gespenst-Gespinsten, / Kielkröpfigen Zwergen steh' ich gleich zu Diensten;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
Declension of Fex [masculine, strong // weak]