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English

Alternative forms

• faine (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophones: feign, fane, foehn

Etymology 1

From Middle English fain, from Old English fægen, from Proto-Germanic *faganaz (“glad”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe?- (“to make pretty, please oneself”); akin to Old Norse feginn (“glad, joyful”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (fagin?n, “to rejoice”), Old Norse fagna (“to rejoice”).

Adjective

fain (comparative more fain, superlative most fain)

1. (archaic) Well-pleased, glad.
2. (archaic) Satisfied, contented.
3. (archaic) Eager, willing or inclined to.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II scene i^[1]:

     Men and birds are fain of climbing high.

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     To a busy man, temptation is fain to climb up together with his business.

4. (archaic) Obliged or compelled to.

Quotations

• 1900, Ernest Dowson, To One in Bedlam, lines 9-10

  O lamentable brother! if those pity thee, / Am I not fain of all thy lone eyes promise me;

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fain, fayn, feyn, from the adjective (see above).

Adverb

fain (comparative fainer, superlative fainest)

1. (archaic) With joy; gladly.
   • c. 1598-99, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III scene v^[2]:

     Leonato: I would fain know what you have to say.

   • 1633, John Donne, Holly Sonnets, XIV:

     Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, / But am betroth’d unto your enemy

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     The second thing I fain would have had was a tobacco-pipe, but it was impossible to me to make one…
2. (archaic) By will or choice.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene i^[4]:

     Gonzalo: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground— long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English fainen, from Old English fæ?enian, from Proto-West Germanic *fagin?n, from Proto-Germanic *fagin?n?.

Verb

fain (third-person singular simple present fains, present participle faining, simple past and past participle fained)

1. (archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice.
2. (archaic) To gladden.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• an if, fina, naif, naïf

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin f?nis, f?nem.

Noun

fain m

1. end

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English fæ?en, from Proto-Germanic *faganaz (“glad”). The adverb is transferred from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?i?n/

Adjective

fain

1. joyful, happy
2. willing, eager
3. pleasing, enjoyable, attractive

Alternative forms

• fagen, vain, fawe, fawen, vawe, fein, fane, fayn, fayne, vayn, feyn

Adverb

fain

1. gladly, joyfully
2. willingly, eagerly

Alternative forms

• fayn, fa?e, fawe, fawen, vawe, fene, vain, vayn, vein, veyn, vane, wane

Descendants

• English: fain
• Scots: fain

References

• “fain, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fain, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French foin, fein, from Latin faenum.

Noun

fain m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) hay

Derived terms

• fagot d'fain (“bundle of hay”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• faim

Etymology

From Latin fam?s.

Noun

fain f (nominative singular fain)

1. hunger

Descendants

• French: faim

Related terms

• famine

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German fein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fajn/

Adjective

fain m or n (feminine singular fain?, masculine plural faini, feminine and neuter plural faine)

1. cool, fine, of good quality

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) fein
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fagn

Etymology

From Latin faenum.

Noun

fain m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) hay

Derived terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) far fain
• (Puter) fer cul fain
• (Vallader) far cun fain

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) fanar

Siar-Lak

Noun

fain

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Old French etiquet m, *estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikan?, *stik?n?, *staikijan? (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Noun

ticket (plural tickets)

1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
6. (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.

7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
8. (dated) A little note or notice.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.

9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
   • 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion

     Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
12. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith (page 124)

      I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.

    • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

      "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."

13. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
    • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts (page 148)

      […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: tiket
• ? Assamese: ???? (tikot)
• ? Bengali: ????? (?iki?), ????? (?iki?), ???? (?ikô?)
• ? Catalan: tiquet
• ? Dutch: ticket
  • ? Indonesian: tiket
• ? French: ticket
• ? German: Ticket
• ? Hindustani:

  Hindi: ???? (?ika?)

  Urdu: ???? (?ika?)

• ? Irish: ticéad
• ? Italian: ticket
• ? Japanese: ???? (chiketto)
• ? Korean: ?? (tiket)
• ? Malay: tiket
• ? Maori: t?keti
• ? Marathi: ????? (tik??)
• ? Nepali: ???? (?ika?)
• ? Oriya: ???? (?ikô?ô)
• ? Portuguese: ticket, tiquete
• ? Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ????? (tiket)
• ? Spanish: ticket, tique, tiquete
• ? Tagalog: tiket
• ? Tamil: ????????? (?ikka??u)
• ? Tibetan: ??????? (?i ka si)

Translations

See also

• ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
2. To mark with a ticket.

   to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

• ticket off

Translations

Anagrams

• ktetic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.k?t/
• Hyphenation: tic?ket

Noun

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

• vliegticket

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tiket

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.k?/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (admission, pass)
2. receipt
3. (Quebec) ticket (traffic citation)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ticket” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

1. prescription charge
2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Further reading

• ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??i.ket??/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)

   Synonym: bilhete

Spanish

Etymology

From English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tiket/, [?t?i.ket?]

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

Swedish

Noun

ticket

1. definite singular of tick