feuilleton

See also: Feuilleton

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌfəɪˈtɑn/, /ˈfʊɪˌtɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.ɪ.tən/, /fə.jə.ˈtoʊn/

Noun

feuilleton (plural feuilletons)

1. A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
2. An article published in such a section.
   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 2:

     Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other.

   • 1990, Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin: 1900, page 44:

     The feuilleton, like the other serious, trivial, and merely curious stories on the newspaper page, served up an excess of details. For the most part, the feuilleton writer observed, rather than explained.

   • 2008, Mila Ganeva, Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933, page 92:

     Indeed, more recent studies of the FZ [Frankfurter Zeitung] and the feuilleton genre also regard essays on fashion as unworthy of analysis — a gesture very similar to the condescending attitudes toward fashion journalism in the early 1920s.

Related terms

• feuilletonist
• roman feuilleton

Translations

section of a newspaper

• Esperanto: felietono
• German: Feuilleton (de) n

article that appears in a feuilleton

• Czech: fejeton m
• Dutch: feuilleton (nl) m
• Esperanto: felietono
• German: Feuilleton (de) n
• Macedonian: фе́љтон m (féljton)
• Polish: felieton (pl) m
• Russian: фельето́н (ru) m (felʹjetón)
• Ukrainian: фейлето́н (uk) m (fejletón)
• Yiddish: פֿעליעטאָן (felyeton)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

feuilleton n (plural feuilletons, diminutive feuilletonnetje n)

1. feuilleton (section of a newspaper)

Further reading

• “feuilleton” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

From feuillet +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fœj.tɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

feuilleton m (plural feuilletons)

1. (television) soap opera
2. (literature) serial, feuilleton, literary article

Derived terms

• feuilletoniser
• feuilletoniste

 

Descendants

• → English: feuilleton
• → German: Feuilleton
• → Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone
• → Swedish: följetong

Further reading

• “feuilleton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe.jeˈtɔn/, /fe.jeˈton/, (careful style) /fø.jeˈtɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn, -on
• Hyphenation: feuil‧le‧ton

Noun

feuilleton m

1. serialized novel

   Synonym: romanzo d'appendice

2. (television) soap opera

Related terms

• fogliettone

Further reading

• feuilleton in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana