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See also:Fee,fée,fêe,feë,fe'e,andfɛɛ́

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishfee,fe,feh,feoh, fromOld Englishfeoh(“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination fromOld Frenchfieu,fief (fromMedieval Latinfevum, a variant offeudum (seefeud), fromFrankish*fehu(“cattle, livestock”); whencefief), both fromProto-Germanic*fehu(“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), fromProto-Indo-European*péḱu(“livestock”).

Cognate withOld High Germanfihu(“cattle, neat”),Scotsfe,fie(“cattle, sheep, livestock, deer, goods, property, wealth, money, wages”),West Frisianfee(“livestock”),Dutchvee(“cattle, livestock”),Low GermanVeeh(“cattle, livestock, property”),Veh,GermanVieh(“cattle, livestock”),Danishfæ(“cattle, beast, dolt”),Swedishfä(“beast, cattle, dolt”),Norwegianfe(“cattle”),Icelandicfé(“livestock, assets, money”),Latinpecū(“cattle”),Sanskritपशु(paśu,“cattle”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fee (pluralfees)

  1. An amount charged for a privilege.
    latefee; licensefee, admissionfee; activationfee; servicefee
  2. An amount charged for professional services.
    legalfees; consultingfees
    • 2013 July 19,Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page30:
      Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging schoolfees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
  3. (Can weverify(+) this sense?) An additional monetarypayment charged for aservice orgood, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
  4. (law) Aninheritableestate in land, whetherabsolute andwithoutlimitation topotentialheirs (fee simple) or withlimitations toparticularkinds ofheirs (fee tail).
  5. (law, historical) Aright to theuse of asuperior'sland as astipend forcertainservices to beperformed,typicallymilitary service.
  6. (law, historical)Synonym offief: thelandsoheld.
  7. (law, historical) Aninheritableestate in landheld of afeudallordon condition ofperformance ofcertainservices,typicallymilitary service.
  8. (figurative, obsolete)Synonym ofpossession.
    • 1807, William Wordsworth, “On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic”, inPoems in Two Volumes:
      Once did she hold the gorgeous East infee;
    • 1844,James Russell Lowell,The Heritage:
      What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold infee.
    • 1915,W.S. Maugham,Of Human Bondage,chapter 121:
      Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held infee the twin realms of space and time.
  9. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment;emolument.
  10. (obsolete) Aprize orreward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

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Related terms

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Translations

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monetary payment charged for professional services
amount charged for a privilege

Verb

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fee (third-person singular simple presentfees,present participlefeeing,simple past and past participlefeed)

  1. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
    • 1693,John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, inThe Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:
      In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / Andfees the doctor; but too late is wise
    • c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv]:
      There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servantfeed.
    • 1847,Herman Melville,Omoo:
      We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket,feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.
    • 1859, Ferna Vale,Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
      It was at a much earlier hour than that which Mrs. Santon had named, that Delwood presented himself, and handsomelyfeeing the porter who answered his summons, he asked to see Miss Santon[…]

See also

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References

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  • “fee”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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FromDutchfee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fee (pluralfeë,diminutivefeetjie)

  1. fairy,pixie

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchfée, fromMiddle French[Term?], fromOld Frenchfae, fromLatinfāta, fromfātum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fee f (pluralfeeën,diminutivefeetje n)

  1. (folklore)fairy

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans:fee
  • → West Frisian:fee

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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fee

  1. second-personsingularimperative offeeën

Manx

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Irishfigid, fromProto-Celtic*wegyeti(“to weave, compose”), fromProto-Indo-European*weg-(“to spin, weave”). Cognate withIrishfigh.

Verb

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fee

  1. toweave,knit
  2. toplait,braid
  3. tointerlace,intertwine
  4. tomat

Noun

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fee m (plural[please provide])

  1. verbal noun offee

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fee m

  1. genitivesingular offeeagh
  2. plural offeeagh

Mutation

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Mutation offee
radicallenitioneclipsis
feeeevee

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Middle English

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Noun

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fee

  1. alternative form offeye(“liver”)

Murui Huitoto

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Etymology

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Cognates includeMinica Huitotofee andNüpode Huitotopee.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɸɛː]
  • Hyphenation:fee

Root

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fee

  1. flying

Derived terms

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References

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  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017),A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page556

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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fee n

  1. (non-standard since1917)definitesingular offe

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchfée.

Noun

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fee f (pluralfee)

  1. fairy

Declension

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Declension offee
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativefeefeeafeefeele
genitive-dativefeefeeifeefeelor
vocativefee,feeofeelor

West Frisian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Frisianfia, fromProto-West Germanic*fehu.

Noun

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fee n (no plural)

  1. livestock
Further reading
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  • “fee (II)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011

Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromDutchfee, fromFrenchfée.

Noun

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fee c (pluralfeeën,diminutivefeeke)

  1. fairy
Further reading
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  • “fee (I)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011
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