fada

Borrowed from Irish fada (“long”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdə
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

fada (plural fadas)

1. The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
   • 1993, John Minahane, The Christian Druids: On the Filid or Philosopher-poets of Ireland, Dublin: Sanas Press (reprinted Dublin: Howth Free Press, 2008, →ISBN p. 35:

     When I read in the RIA Dictionary that the third person singular passive perfect of the verb fo-geib or fo-gaib “has been found”, has been found in the form frith, frioth, fo frith, foríth, and whole lot more including fríth with the fada, I find that friothfully froth-provoking.

   • 2006, Elizabeth Keane, An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary: The Nationalist and Internationalist Politics of Seán MacBride‎^[1], London: I. B. Tauris, →ISBN, page vii:

     The Irish acute accent mark, or fada, is included on Irish proper names and words in the Irish language where required, for example Seán MacBride and Dáil Éireann, except when the fada is not used in a direct quote.

   • 2007, Holly Bennett, The Warrior’s Daughter, Custer, Washington: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page ix:

     And finally, I have omitted the fadas, or accents, from all Irish words, since they are no help to a North American reader.

   • 2008, Caroline Williams, “The Irish Playography: documenting the Irish Theatrical Repertoire”, in M. Auclair, K. Davis, S. François, editors, Du document à l’utilisateur : Rôles et responsabilités des centres spécialisés dans les arts du spectacle‎^[2], Brussels: Peter Lang, →ISBN, pages 219–20:

     It’s very common in Irish to use a fada on a name, and we had to ensure that a name like Seán, for example should [be possible for] people [to] search [for] with or without the fada on “á”.

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From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfada/ [ˈfa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: fa‧da

fada f (plural fades)

1. fairy

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfa.ða]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate, destiny told by the gods”). Compare French fée, Italian fata, Occitan and Portuguese fada, Spanish hada.

fada f (plural fades)

1. fairy

fada

1. feminine singular of fat

• “fada”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /fa.da/

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Borrowed from Occitan fadatz.

fada (feminine fadade, masculine plural fadas, feminine plural fadades)

1. (Meridional) crazy

   Synonym: fou

fada m or f by sense (plural fadas)

1. (Meridional) nutcase

   Synonym: fou

   Il est pas tranquille celui-là, c'est un fada !

   He's not calm, he's crazy!

   • 1998, “Sans Rémission”, in Si Dieu veut…, performed by Fonky Family:

     Je sème des rimes tant pis si j'passe pour un fada / Que je récolte nada, j'reste hip hop : soldat sans FAMAS / Se parque devant les liasses comme le reste de la populace

     I sow these rhymes so much I pass for a nutter / though I reap nada, I'm sticking with hip-hop: soldier without a rifle / parked before the stacks like the rest of the people

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fada

1. third-person singular past historic of fader

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

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”) (compare xa from Diana), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate, destiny told by the gods”). Cognate with French fée, Italian fata, Portuguese and Occitan fada, Spanish hada.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaðɐ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

fada f (plural fadas)

1. fairy

   Synonyms: xa, xan

2. fate, destiny
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 130:

     Et o conde normando, quando a uio fremosa, que mays nõ poderia seer hũa dõzella, dissolle entõ en poridade que auia grã querela della, por que tijna que era dona sem ventura et de maa fada, mays que quantas auia en seu logar et en seu linagẽ, poys que os castelaaos auiã rrecebudo tã grã pesar por ella.

     And the Norman count, when he saw that she was beauty, more than what any maiden could be, told her privately that he had a big trouble with here, because he considered that she was an unfortunate lady, and a jinx [lit. of bad fate], more than every woman in her place and her lineage, since the Castilian had received such large harm because of her

   • 1859, Manuel Fernández Magariños, Seor Pedro, section 7:

     Por necesidá a guerra é pasadeira, e eso solo porque ten orixen na fada, con que nacemos de senreirar uns contra outros

     because of necessity war is passable, and that just because it originates in the fate, with which we are born, of being hostile against each other

• enfadar
• fadar
• más fadas te faden

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fada

1. inflection of fadar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Irish fota,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *wasdʰos (“long, wide”); compare Latin vastus (“wide”).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑd̪ˠə/^[2][3]
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠad̪ˠə/^[4]

fada (comparative faide or foide)

1. long
2. far

• Alternative comparative form: foide (Cois Fharraige)

• fad

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fada”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

fāda f (genitive fādae); first declension

1. (Early Medieval Latin) fāta
   • 13th century, Gervasius of Tilbury, Otia Imperalia, volume Tertia Decisio, LXXXVI:

     Hoc equidem a viris omni exceptione majoribus quotidie scimus probatum, quod quosdam hujusmodi larvarum, quas Fadas nominant, amatores audivimus, et cum ad aliarum foeminarum matrimonia se transtulerunt, ante mortuos, quam cum superinductis carnali se copula immiscuerunt; [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• afda

Borrowed from Sicilian fidari, from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere. Unrelated to native feda (“to redeem”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.da/

fada (imperfect jafda, past participle fdat, verbal noun fdar)

1. to trust
2. to entrust
3. to be careless

From English father.

fada

1. father

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate, destiny told by the gods”). Compare Catalan fada, French fée, Italian fata, Portuguese fada, Spanish hada.

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• Hyphenation: fa‧da

fada f (plural fadas)

1. fairy

From Old Galician-Portuguese fada, from Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

Compare Galician, Catalan, and Occitan fada, Spanish hada, French fée and Italian fata.

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

fada f (plural fadas)

1. fairy

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fada

1. inflection of fadar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Irish fota. Cognates include Irish fada and Manx foddey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfat̪ə/
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

fada (comparative fhaide, qualitative noun fhaide)

1. long
2. far

fada

1. long

   Bha agam ri feitheamh fada ro fhada. ― I had to wait far too long.

2. far, much

   Bha agam ri feitheamh fada ro fhada. ― I had to wait far too long.

• fad

• Colin Mark (2003) “fada”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fota, fata”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈfada/ [ˈfa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: fa‧da

fada m (plural fadas)

1. obsolete spelling of hada

fada f sg

1. feminine singular of fado

• “fada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Ultimately from Latin fatum.

fada f

1. fairy

From Hausa fādà (“palace”).

• IPA^(key): /fá.dà/

fádà

1. A public display or performance, normally performed for a king in his court or palace

   wọ́n tẹ́ fádà ijó ― They put on a public display of dance