fetis
Indonesian
editNoun
editfetis (first-person possessive fetisku, second-person possessive fetismu, third-person possessive fetisnya)
Latin
editAdjective
editfētīs
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French fetis, faitis, from Latin factīcius.
Adjective
editfetis
- neat; pretty; well made; graceful
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Ful fetis was hir cloke, as I was war.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
edit- English: featous
References
edit- “fetis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.