Galician

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese feixe (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fascis, from fascio (to bundle), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (bundle, band). Cognate with Portuguese feixe, Spanish haz, Catalan feix, Occitan fais, French faix, Italian fascio and Romanian fascie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfejʃe/ [ˈfej.ʃɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ejʃe
  • Hyphenation: fei‧xe

Noun

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feixe m (plural feixes)

  1. bundle
    Synonym: mada
  2. sheaf
    • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 219:
      Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar
      five flax sheafs: one threshed and four pending
    Synonym: mollo
  3. (collective) faggot
    • 1301, M. Romaní Martinez, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, 3, page 1241:
      dous feyxes de rodriga
      two faggots of stakes
    Synonym: lote
  4. lot (a number)
    • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419:
      Sisa das olas: Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona que trouxer carga d'olas de fora parte a vender aa dita çidade, que page de cada carga d'olas, duas brancas e de un costal d'olas, hua branca, e do feixe das olas que trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeiros
      Tax on the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a sack; and for the lot that they can bring on themselves, a coin; an two coins for each amphora
    Synonym: lote
  5. lot (large quantity)
    Synonyms: lote, morea, mundo
  6. winepress beam

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Verb

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feixe

  1. inflection of feixen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese feixe, from Latin fascis, from fascio (to bundle), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰasko (bundle, band). Cognate with Galician feixe, Spanish haz, Catalan feix, Occitan fais, French faix, Italian fascio and Romanian fascie.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfe(j).ʃi/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯).ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfe(j).ʃe/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯).ʃe]
 

Noun

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feixe m (plural feixes)

  1. bundle
  2. sheaf
  3. (collective) faggot (bundle of wood)
  4. portion
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