feo

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See also: fẽo

Asturian

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feo

  1. neuter of feu

Catalan

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Etymology

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First attested in the 20th century.

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Adjective

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

  1. (Castilianism) ugly

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

Esperanto

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfeo]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Hyphenation: fe‧o

Noun

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

  1. fairy

Galician

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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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
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Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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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
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Irish

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

  1. verbal noun of feoigh
  2. decay

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feo fheo bhfeo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Macanese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese feo. Compare Portuguese feio.

Adjective

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feo

  1. ugly
    feo olâit doesn't look good (literally, “ugly look”)
    Ânsia feo olâIt is bad to be greedy (literally, “greed ugly look”)
    Estung'a quanto casa sâm bem di feo
    These houses are very ugly

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  • 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.

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Old English

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fēo

  1. dative singular of feoh

Spanish

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Etymology

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

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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

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