fête
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French fête.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fête (plural fêtes)
- Alternative spelling of fete
Verb edit
fête (third-person singular simple present fêtes, present participle fêting, simple past and past participle fêted)
- Alternative spelling of fete
- 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French feste, from Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fête f (plural fêtes)
- winter holidays (always in plural)
- Tu fais quoi pour les fêtes (de fin d’année)? ― What will you do for the (winter) holidays? (literally, “the end-of-year holidays”)
- party
- (Christianity) name day
- Le 18 mai, c’est la fête des Éric. ― May 18 is the name day of people named Eric.
- (Canada, Louisiana) birthday
- Bonne fête! ― Happy birthday!
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Verb edit
fête
- inflection of fêter:
Further reading edit
- “fête”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fête f (plural fêtes)