feti
- plural offetus
Sometimes proscribed, consideredhypercorrect (the plural of Latinfētus, which belongs to the fourth declension, isfētūs; the-us →-i rule is a pattern of the second declension).[1][2][3]
- ^Bernard Towers (1967) “Fetus vs. Foetus”, inArchives of Disease in Childhood, page224, column 2:
As to plurals, the correct form isfetūs with the long second syllable (never, of course,feti, from the sight and sound of which both mind and heart recoil). But perhaps it would be altogether too pedantic to insist on such ‘difficult’ plurals these days, and I for one would settle forfetuses.
- ^Wesley W. Parke (1975)Photographic Atlas of Fetal Anatomy, University Park Press, page xvii:
Because it was a noun of the fourth declension, its plural spelling was identical to that of its nominative singular, but a diacritical mark was placed over the final vowel to indicate a change in its pronunciation to a longu (i.e.,fetūs; however, to eliminate the need of the diacritic, the anglicizedfetuses is acceptable).
- ^Arthur D. Hlavaty (2002 July 11) “Letters of Comment”, inTheSouthern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, volume 8, number 1, published October 2002, page21:
I wish to apologize for an error in my LoC that made it seem as if you were ignorant. When I wrote the letter, I was under the impression thatfeti was the plural offetus. I have since learned that the correct Latin plural would befetūs (note accent). This is confusing enough that we should probably settle for the boring Englishfetuses.
feti
- indefinitedativesingular offet
feti m
- plural offeto
fētī
- inflection offētus:
- nominative/vocativemasculineplural
- genitivemasculine/neutersingular
FromHindi.
feti
- box
FromEnglishfight.
feti
- tofight,combat,bicker
feti
- fight,strife
