fetta – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of fetta

Noun: fetta
Gender: f Hyphenation: fét‧ta
Singular ffetta
Plural ffette

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Etymology

Uncertain; several possibilities exist. Probably ultimately from Latin findere, through an alteration of its past participle fissus into a form *fictus > *fectus, later becoming feminine. (Compare the change from fixus to fitto). An alternative may be a Vulgar Latin *offetta (“little piece”), diminutive of offa. Compare Galician and Portuguese fita, Dalmatian fiata, Sicilian feḍḍa, Sardinian fitta. See: Latin Nouns 'findere'.

Verbs referencing "fetta"

English Nouns feta, English Nouns fet, Greek Nouns φέτα.

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