different between fesse vs fessed

English

Noun

fesse (plural fesses)

1. Alternative spelling of fess (horizontal band in heraldry)

French

Etymology

From Middle French fesse, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa, from Latin fissum, from Proto-Indo-European *b?idtós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

Noun

fesse f (plural fesses)

1. buttock
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Quant à mon homme, l'œil collé au trou, une main sur mes fesses, l'autre à son vit qu'il agitait peu à peu, il semblait régler son extase sur celle qu'il surprenait.

     As for my man, eyes glued to my hole, one hand on my buttocks, the other on his dick which he stimulated little by little, he seemed to direct his ecstasy on the one he surprised

   • 1857, Charles Baudelaire, "L'imprévu", Les Fleurs du mal.

Derived terms

• avoir le feu aux fesses

Derived terms

• coller aux fesses
• coûter la peau des fesses
• fessé, fessée, fesser, fessier, fesseur, fesseuse
• le beurre, l'argent du beurre et les fesses de la crémière
• ramener ses fesses
• s'occuper de ses fesses

Verb

fesse

1. first-person singular present indicative of fesser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fesser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fesser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fesser
5. second-person singular imperative of fesser

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -esse

Adjective

fesse

1. feminine plural of fesso

Latin

Adjective

fesse

1. vocative masculine singular of fessus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa, from Latin fissum.

Noun

fesse f (plural fesses)

1. buttock

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?st/
• Homophone: fest

Verb

fessed

1. simple past tense and past participle of fess