fetiche

See also: fétiche and fétiché

English

Noun

fetiche (plural fetiches)

1. Archaic form of fetish.

Anagrams

• fitchée, fitchee

Interlingua

Noun

fetiche (plural fetiches)

1. fetish

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin factus

Latin -īcius

Latin factīcius

Portuguese feitiçobor.

French fétichebor.

Portuguese fetiche

Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of feitiço.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /feˈt͡ʃi.ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /feˈt͡ʃi.ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /feˈt͡ʃi.ʃe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɛˈti.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɛˈti.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɛˈti.t͡ʃɨ/

• Hyphenation: fe‧ti‧che

Noun

fetiche m (plural fetiches)

1. fetish, amulet (magical object)

   Synonyms: talismã, amuleto

2. sexual fetish

   Synonyms: feitiche, tara, perversão

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈtit͡ʃe/ [feˈt̪i.t͡ʃe]

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• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Syllabification: fe‧ti‧che

Noun

fetiche m (plural fetiches)

1. fetish (something that is believed to possess magical powers)

Derived terms

• fetichismo
• fetichista

 

Related terms

• hechizo

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: fetitxe

Further reading

• “fetiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10