different between fiel vs demesne

French

Etymology

From Old French fiel, fel, according to the TLFi, a borrowing from Latin fel, itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?- (“green”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fj?l/

Noun

fiel m (plural fiels)

1. bile

Synonyms

• bile

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• file, filé

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/
• Homophone: viel

Verb

fiel

1. first/third-person singular preterite of fallen

Middle English

Noun

fiel (plural fiels)

1. Alternative form of fiele

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese fiel, from Latin fid?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?fj??/
• Hyphenation: fi?el
• Rhymes: -?w

Adjective

fiel (plural fiéis, comparable)

1. faithful, loyal

2. true, trustworthy, accurate

Derived terms

• fielmente

Related terms

• fidelidade
• infiel

Further reading

• “fiel” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fiel, from Latin fid?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fjel/, [?fjel]
• Rhymes: -el

Adjective

fiel (plural fieles) (superlative fidelísimo)

1. faithful, true

2. loyal

Derived terms

Related terms

• fe
• fiar

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, from Anglo-Norman demeyne, demene et al., Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”) (whence French domaine (“domain”)), a noun use of an adjective, from Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame. Doublet of domain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d??mi?n/
• Hyphenation: de?mesne
• Rhymes: -e?n, -i?n
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

demesne (plural demesnes)

1. A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.
2. A region or area; a domain.
   • 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 5-6

     Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
     That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;

Translations

References

• demesne in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• seedmen

Old French

Adjective

demesne m (oblique and nominative feminine singular demesne)

1. Alternative form of demaine

Noun

demesne m (oblique plural demesnes, nominative singular demesnes, nominative plural demesne)

1. Alternative form of demaine