different between fee vs requital

English

Etymology

From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence English fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u- (“livestock”). Cognate with Old High German fihu (“cattle, neat”), Scots fe, fie (“cattle, sheep, livestock, deer, goods, property, wealth, money, wages”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Veh, German Vieh (“cattle, livestock”), Danish fæ (“cattle, beast, dolt”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Norwegian fe (“cattle”), Icelandic fé (“livestock, assets, money”), Latin pec? (“cattle”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f? IPA^(key): /fi?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: fi

Noun

fee (plural fees)

1. (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
2. (law) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
3. (law) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
4. (obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
   • 1844, The Heritage, by James Russell Lowell

     What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee.

   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 121:

     Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.

5. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
6. (obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:

     For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.

7. A monetary payment charged for professional services.

Derived terms

• base fee
• conditional fee
• fee splitting
• great fee
• handling fee

Related terms

• feoffee
• fief

Translations

Verb

fee (third-person singular simple present fees, present participle feeing, simple past and past participle feed)

1. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
   • 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:

     In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise

   • There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.

   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo

     We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.

See also

• fee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EFE, eef

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch fee.

Noun

fee (plural feë, diminutive feetjie)

1. fairy, pixie

Related terms

• feeagtig

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fée, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French fae, from Latin f?ta, from f?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/
• Hyphenation: fee
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

fee f (plural feeën, diminutive feetje n)

1. (folklore) fairy

Derived terms

• feeachtig
• feeërie
• feeëriek
• toverfee

Descendants

• Afrikaans: fee
• ? West Frisian: fee

Luxembourgish

Verb

fee

1. second-person singular imperative of feeën

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish figid, from Proto-Celtic *wegyeti (“to weave, compose”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to spin, weave”). Cognate with Irish figh.

Verb

fee

1. to weave, knit
2. to plait, braid
3. to interlace, intertwine
4. to mat

Noun

fee m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of fee

Etymology 2

Noun

fee m

1. genitive singular of feeagh
2. plural of feeagh

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

fee

1. Alternative form of fey (“liver”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fee n

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of fe

Romanian

Etymology

From French fée.

Noun

fee f (plural fee)

1. fairy

Declension

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian fia, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u- (“livestock”).

Noun

fee n (no plural)

1. livestock

Further reading

• “fee (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch fee, from French fée.

Noun

fee c (plural feeën, diminutive feeke)

1. fairy

Further reading

• “fee (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English requite, 1570-1580.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t?l

Noun

requital (countable and uncountable, plural requitals)

1. Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
2. Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
3. Repayment, reward, recompense, return in kind.
   • 2009, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, The Nature of Love, p. 233:

     But we are thinking here above all of the happiness that comes with the requital of love, of the case in which my love is returned with an equal love.

   • mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, sc. 1:

     O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,

     Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength

     To make a more requital to your love.

   • 1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Act I, sc. 1:

     My lord mayor, you have sundry times

     Feasted myself and many courtiers more:

     Seldom or never can we be so kind

     To make requital of your courtesy.

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (quoting Johnson):

     In requittal [sic] of those well-intended offices, which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge, let me beg that you make in your devotions one petition for my eternal welfare.

Translations

Anagrams

• quartile