feo

feo

1. neuter of feu

• feu (Alghero)

First attested in the 20th century.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɛ.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfɛ.o]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) unknown

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural fees)

1. (Castilianism) ugly

• Often regarded "inadmissible" and not part of the literary language.

From French fée and German Fee, by way of feino with the feminine suffix -ino.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: fe‧o

feo (accusative singular feon, plural feoj, accusative plural feojn)

1. fairy

• feio

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeo/ [ˈfe.ʊ]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: fe‧o

From Old Galician-Portuguese feo, from Latin foedus (“hideous”).

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas)

1. ugly

   Synonyms: laido, edo, croucho, tocho

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:

     quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudo

     who was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked

• feamente

• fealdade

From Old Galician-Portuguese fẽo, from Latin faenum (“hay”). Cognate with Portuguese feno, Spanish heno.

• feno, freo

feo m (plural feos)

1. hay
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:

     Jtem. deue o potro comer feo, palla, herua, orio, auea, espelqa, que quer dizer melga, et as qousas semellauelles a esto, que naturalmente som para seu comer.

     Item. The foal must eat hay, straw, grass, barley, oat, spelt —that is, melga— and things that are similar to these, which are naturally for them to eat

2. beachgrass

• “feo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “feo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “feo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “feo”, 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), “feo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “feo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• feochan

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fʲoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fʲɔː/

feo m (genitive singular as substantive feo, genitive as verbal noun feoite)

1. verbal noun of feoigh
2. decay

• fêo

From Old Galician-Portuguese feo. Compare Portuguese feio.

feo

1. ugly

   feo olâ ― it doesn't look good (literally, “ugly look”)

   Ânsia feo olâ ― It is bad to be greedy (literally, “greed ugly look”)

   Estung'a quanto casa sâm bem di feo

   These houses are very ugly

• feo olâ may be a calque of Cantonese 難睇 / 难睇 (naan⁴ tai², “ugly”, literally “difficult to look (at)”) or otherwise related to this phrase.

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

• IPA^(key): /fe͜oː/

fēo

1. dative singular of feoh

From Latin foedus (“hideous”). Probably borrowed from other Ibero-Romance language, displacing native hedo. Cognate with Portuguese feio. Compare English fedity.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeo/ [ˈfe.o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: fe‧o

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas, superlative feísimo)

1. ugly

   Antonyms: guapo, bonito, bello, hermoso

2. (Mexico) bad, gross, mean, nasty
3. in poor condition

• “feo”, 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