Unadapted borrowing fromFrenchfête.
fête (pluralfêtes)
- Alternative spelling offete.
1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym;Washington Irving], “Stratford-on-Avon”, inThe Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […],→OCLC,page62:The sexton and his companion had been employed as carpenters on the preparations for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee; and they remembered Garrick, the prime mover of thefête, who superintended the arrangements;[…]
fête (third-person singular simple presentfêtes,present participlefêting,simple past and past participlefêted)
- Alternative spelling offete.
1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, inThe Atlantic[1]:This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular orfêted here.
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfeste, fromOld Frenchfeste, fromLate Latinfēsta, from the plural ofLatinfēstum.
fête f (pluralfêtes)
- winterholidays (always in plural)
- Tu fais quoi pour lesfêtes (de fin d'année)? ―What will you do for the (winter)holidays? (literally, “the end-of-year holidays”)
- party
- Synonyms:teuf,partie,nouba
- Je fais unefête chez moi ce soir! ―I'm throwing aparty at my place tonight! (literally, “I'm doing a party”)
- (Christianity)name day
- Le 18 mai, c'est lafête des Éric. ―May 18 is thename day of people named Eric.
- (North America)birthday
- Bonnefête! ―Happybirthday!
fête
- inflection offêter:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
FromOld Frenchfeste, fromLate Latinfēsta, from the plural ofLatinfēstum.
fête f (pluralfêtes)
- (Jersey, Guernsey)holiday
