Adjective: fétiche
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | fétiche |
| Singular f. | fétiche |
| Plural m. | fétiches |
| Plural f. | fétiches |
Sample Sentences
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Les arbres fétiches. (The holy [to animism] trees.)
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C'est mon bracelet fétiche. (It's my lucky wristband.)
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L'objet fétiche représente le pénis attribué par l'enfant à sa mère. (The fetish object represents the penis attributed by the child to its mother. (Freudian concept))
Adjectives inflected like fétiche
emblématique,
antipianistique,
vanadique,
électrolysable,
sébacique,
aponévrotique,
fétichiste,
chromosomique,
archéographique,
fiduciaire,
judiciaire,
accusable,
monomyaire,
ontogénétique,
cinématique,
technétronique,
mélangeable,
neuropathique,
neurologique,
panchronique, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
6. Proto-Italic *θakjō
7. Proto-Italic *fakjō
8. Latin faciō
9. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
10. Proto-Italic *-tos
11. Latin -tus
12. Latin factus
13. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
14. Proto-Italic *-ikos
15. Latin -īcus
16. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
17. Proto-Italic *-ijos
18. Proto-Italic *-ios
19. Old Latin -ios
20. Latin -ius
21. Latin -īcius
22. Latin factīcius
23. Portuguese feitiçobor.
24. French fétiche
25. Borrowed from Portuguese feitiço (“feigned, false; spell, witchcraft, amulet”), from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Compare the doublet factice (a borrowing directly from the Latin), as well as the inherited Old French faitis. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
feitiço', Latin Adjectives '
factīcius'.
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