different between fiche vs fichu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

fiche (plural fiches)

1. a microfiche

Anagrams

• cheif, chief

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiche.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiche n (plural fiches or fichen)

1. (board games, card games) chip, token
2. (Belgium) form (blank template on paper)
3. (information science) card, like a punch card, microfiche or file card

Synonyms

• (chip): jeton (Belgium)
• (form): formulier

(file card):

• kaart
• steekkaart

Hypernyms

• (file card): kaart

French

Etymology

From ficher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?/

Noun

fiche f (plural fiches)

1. card (in a file)
2. plug

Derived terms

• fiche S

Descendants

• Dutch: fiche
• English: fiche
• North Levantine Arabic: ???? (f?š)
• Portuguese: ficha
• Spanish: ficha

Verb

fiche

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

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fiche, from Proto-Celtic *wikant? (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wih??m?t (compare Latin v?gint?), from *dwi(h?)d?m?ti (“two-ten”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /?f??h?/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?f??ç?/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /f?i?/

Numeral

fiche

1. twenty

Usage notes

• Always used with nouns in the singular; triggers no mutation:

Derived terms

Noun

fiche m (genitive singular fichead, nominative plural fichidí)

1. twenty, a group of twenty, a score

Declension

• Plural used after numerals: fichid

Synonyms

• scór

Derived terms

• dhá fhichead
• trí fichid
• cheithre fichid

Mutation

Further reading

• "fiche" 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) , “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

French fiche

Noun

fiche f (invariable)

1. chip (gambling)

Noun

fiche f pl

1. plural of fica

Middle English

Noun

fiche

1. Alternative form of fecche

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wikant?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wih??m?t, from *dwi(h?)d?m?ti (“two-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?ix?e/

Numeral

fiche m (genitive singular fichet, nominative plural fichit)

1. twenty
   • c. 850, Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 41^b2

   • De Ira, published in "An Irish Penitential", Ériu vol. 7, page 166, edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: fiche
• Manx: feed
• Scottish Gaelic: fichead

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

fiche

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fichar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fichar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fichar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fichar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fichu (“(noun) triangular scarf; (adjective) got up, put together”) (in the sense of something thrown on without much thought), from ficher (“to drive something (such as a nail) by its point”), ultimately from Latin f?g? (“to fasten, fix; to pierce, transfix; to drive (a nail)”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to set up”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??(j)u?/, /?fi?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??(j)u?/, /?fi-/
• Hyphenation: fi?chu

Noun

fichu (plural fichus)

1. (chiefly historical) A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest.

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• fichu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Past participle of ficher (various senses). Also a minced oath for foutu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.?y/

Noun

fichu m (plural fichus)

1. (historical) fichu
2. scarf, headscarf

Adjective

fichu (feminine singular fichue, masculine plural fichus, feminine plural fichues)

1. (colloquial) lousy, rotten, hell of a
2. (colloquial) done for
3. (colloquial) put together, rigged out, got up

Related terms

• fichtre

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

fichu m

1. (Guernsey) blessed, wretched

Adverb

fichu

1. (Guernsey) really