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fem

See also: femme, FEM, fém, fem., and fem-

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of feminine

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fem (plural fems)

  1. (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme
    Antonym: butch
    • 2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.
  2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
    • 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
      "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."
    • 2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge, →ISBN:
      [...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...

Adjective

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fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)

  1. (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.
    Antonym: masc
  2. (LGBT) Synonym of femme
    Antonym: butch
    • 2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 79:
      Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin fimum.

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Noun

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fem m (plural fems)

  1. dung
  2. (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)
  3. (in the plural, especially Balearic) rubbish
    Synonym: escombraries
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

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  • (Balearic) feim (indicative), facem (subjunctive, imperative)

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Verb

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fem

  1. inflection of fer:
    1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. first-person plural imperative

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Danish

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Danish cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : fem
    Ordinal : femte

Etymology

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From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”).

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fem

  1. five

Elfdalian

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Elfdalian cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : fem
    Ordinal : femt

Etymology

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From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.

Numeral

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fem

  1. five

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)). English fem is itself from French femme.

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Noun

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fem f (plural fems)

  1. a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)
    • 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23–24:
      Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c’est une gouine qui n’a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n’est pas un passe-droit pour d’intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : fem
    Ordinal : femte

Etymology

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From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

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fem

  1. five

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : fem
    Ordinal : femte

Etymology

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From Old Norse fimm (“five”).

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fem

  1. five

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin fūmus.

Noun

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fem m

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke

Swedish

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Swedish numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: fem
    Ordinal: femte
    Ordinal abbreviation: 5:e
    Multiplier: femfaldig
    Fractional: femtedel

Etymology

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From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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fem

  1. five

Coordinate terms

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Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
0— noll en/ett två tre fyra fem sex sju åtta nio
1— tio elva tolv tretton fjorton femton sexton sjutton arton/aderton nitton
2— tjugo tjugoen/-ett tjugotvå tjugotre tjugofyra tjugofem tjugosex tjugosju tjugoåtta tjugonio
3— trettio trettioen/-ett trettiotvå trettiotre trettiofyra trettiofem trettiosex trettiosju trettioåtta trettionio
4— fyrtio fyrtioen/-ett fyrtiotvå fyrtiotre fyrtiofyra fyrtiofem fyrtiosex fyrtiosju fyrtioåtta fyrtionio
5— femtio femtioen/-ett femtiotvå femtiotre femtiofyra femtiofem femtiosex femtiosju femtioåtta femtionio
6— sextio sextioen/-ett sextiotvå sextiotre sextiofyra sextiofem sextiosex sextiosju sextioåtta sextionio
7— sjuttio sjuttioen/-ett sjuttiotvå sjuttiotre sjuttiofyra sjuttiofem sjuttiosex sjuttiosju sjuttioåtta sjuttionio
8— åttio åttioen/-ett åttiotvå åttiotre åttiofyra åttiofem åttiosex åttiosju åttioåtta åttionio
9— nittio nittioen/-ett nittiotvå nittiotre nittiofyra nittiofem nittiosex nittiosju nittioåtta nittionio
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Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fermentation.

Noun

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fem (nominative plural fems)

  1. fermentation

Declension

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declension of fem
singular plural
nominative fem fems
genitive fema femas
dative feme femes
accusative femi femis
vocative 1 o fem! o fems!
predicative 2 femu femus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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