different between fairie vs faerie

fairie

English

Noun

fairie (plural fairies)

  1. Alternative spelling of fairy

Middle English

Noun

fairie

  1. Alternative form of fairye

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faerie

English

Alternative forms

  • færie (archaic, nonstandard)

Etymology

From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.

Noun

faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)

  1. Archaic spelling of fairy.
  2. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

References

  • Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • feriae

Old French

Alternative forms

  • faierie

Etymology

fae +? -erie

Noun

faerie f

  1. the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)

Derived terms

  • French: féerie
    • ? English: féerie
  • ? Middle English: fairye
    • English: fairy, fairie, faerie, faery
    • Scots: fairy, faerie, faery

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