fetis
Indonesian
Noun
fetis (plural fetis-fetis)
Latin
Adjective
fētīs
- dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of fētus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fetys
Etymology
From Old French fetis, faitis, from Latin factīcius.
Adjective
fetis
- 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)
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: featous
References
- “fetis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.