different between fess vs feis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From confess, by shortening.

Verb

fess (third-person singular simple present fesses, present participle fessing, simple past and past participle fessed)

1. To confess; to admit.

Derived terms

• fess up

Etymology 2

From Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Doublet of fascia.

Alternative forms

• fesse

Noun

fess (plural fesses)

1. (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:

     Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 420:

     The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.

Translations

Etymology 3

Adjective

fess

1. (British dialect) Proud; conceited.
2. (British dialect) Lively; active; strong.
3. (British dialect) Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.

Anagrams

• FSes

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f???]
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Viennese German fesch (“smart, stylish”), from English fashionable.

Adjective

fess (comparative fessebb, superlative legfessebb)

1. (colloquial, dated) smart, stylish, chic

Declension

Etymology 2

fest +? -j

Verb

fess

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of fest

References

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French fesse

Noun

fess

1. bottom, buttock, arse

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Named after the city of Fez, Morocco.

Noun

fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)

2. fez

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Fess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)

2. (music) F-flat

Derived terms

• fess-dur m
• fess-moll m

References

• “fess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Verb

·fess

1. passive singular perfect prototonic of ro·finnadar

Mutation

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French fesse

Noun

fess

1. bottom, buttock, arse

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish feis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• pl. IPA^(key): /f???n?/

Noun

feis (plural feiseanna)

1. (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
2. (Ireland) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.

See also

• Fèis, the Scottish equivalent, and eisteddfod, the Welsh equivalent.

Anagrams

• EFIs, ISEF, fise, seif

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to reside”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???/

Noun

feis f (genitive singular feise, nominative plural feiseanna)

1. (literary)
   1. act of sleeping, of passing the night
   2. accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
2. (literary)
   1. sleeping together, sexual intercourse
   2. espousal, marriage
3. festival

   Synonym: féile

   1. Irish language festival (with competitions)
4. (literature) feast tale

Declension

Derived terms

• Ard-Fheis (“national convention”)

Mutation

References

• "feis" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “feis” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “feis” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• fes, fiste

Verb

feis

1. simple past of fise

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to reside”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/

Noun

feis f (genitive singular feise)

1. sex, intercourse

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with fèis (“a festival”).

Mutation

References

• “feis” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language