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English

Etymology

Clipping of feminine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

fem (plural fems)

1. (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme

   Antonym: butch

   • 2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge (?ISBN)

     Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.

2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
   • 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:

     "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."

   • 2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge (?ISBN):

     [...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...

Adjective

fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)

1. (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.

   Antonym: masc

2. (LGBT) Synonym of femme

   Antonym: butch

   • 2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang (?ISBN), page 79:

     Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]

Anagrams

• EFM, EMF, MEF, emf

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin fimum.

Noun

fem m (plural fems)

1. dung
2. (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)

Related terms

• femar
• femta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fem

1. first-person plural present indicative form of fer
2. first-person plural present subjunctive form of fer
3. first-person plural imperative form of fer

Further reading

• “fem” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fem” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fem” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fem” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e (“five”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?m?]

Numeral

fem

1. five

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.

Numeral

fem

1. five

French

Etymology

English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/

Noun

fem f (plural fems)

1. a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)
   • 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:

     Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c'est une gouine qui n'a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n'est pas un passe-droit pour d'intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/

Numeral

fem

1. five

Derived terms

Related terms

• femte

References

• “fem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”)

Numeral

fem

1. five

Derived terms

• femdel
• femkamp
• femkant
• tjuefem

Related terms

• femte

References

• “fem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) fim
• (Puter, Vallader) füm

Etymology

From Latin f?mus.

Noun

fem m

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/

Numeral

fem

1. five

Coordinate terms

Related terms

See also

• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

References

• fem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fermentation.

Noun

fem (nominative plural fems)

1. fermentation

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Phoenician ????????? (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *ma?- (“*ma?-/*may-”).

Alternative forms

• meem, mim

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (computing) A memory access as part of processing.

Further reading

• mem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Catalan

Etymology

English meme

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mem/

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. internet meme

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/
• Hyphenation: mem
• Audio:

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj, [1]

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? ?ajnas al mi, ke vi mem ?us diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memportreto

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

Finnish

Noun

mem

1. mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -mme

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adverb

mem

1. even, still (in comparson)

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ??? (m?m), from Phoenician ????????? (mm, “water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mem/
• Hyphenation: mém

Noun

mem m or f (invariable)

1. mem, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?/?

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Etymology

From French même.

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Etymology

From English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (something copied and circulated online)

Declension

Further reading

• mem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?m/

Noun

mem c

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

Related terms

• memetik

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *m?dye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh?-ye/o- from *meh?- (“to measure”) (whence Latin m?tior). Compare Tocharian B maim.

Noun

mem

1. thought, thinking

Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably from Old Frisian *m?me, from Proto-West Germanic *m?m?. Compare English mum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

Further reading

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