FromAnglo-Normanfieu(“fief”).
feu (pluralfeus)
- (Scots law, property law, historical)Land held infeudaltenure.
feu (third-person singular simple presentfeus,present participlefeuing,simple past and past participlefeued)
- (Scots law, transitive) To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.
- 1813,"Keith", Entry inNicholas Carlisle,A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Volume II,unnumbered page,
- The Village of OLD KEITH is of ancient date, having been partlyfeued by the predecessors of the Family of Forbes, and partlyfeued by the Ministers, and stands upon the glebe: this Village is greatly on the decline, and almost a ruin.—About the year 1750, the late Lord FINDLATER divided a barren Muir, andfeued it out in small lots […] .
- 1841, Alexander Dunlop, J. M. Bell, John Murray, James Donaldson (reporters),Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 3, 2nd Series,page 620,
- The prohibition offeuing beyond a certain extent was clearly implied; […] .
2001, Richard Rodger, “The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century”, inPaperback,Cambridge University Press, published2004,page68:But in effect, whereas Heriot's knew that theirfeuing conditions were subordinate to the law of contract, the Earl of Moray knew by 1822 that as a result of the Lords' decision in 1818 estate development could not be controlled by contract law and thefeuing plan.[…]The impact on the Moray estate was that[…]despite a recession in the Edinburgh property market generally after 1826, virtually the entire estate wasfeued by 1836.
etymologically unrelated terms
FromLatinfoedus.
feu m sg (feminine singularfea,neuter singularfeo,masculine pluralfeos,feminine pluralfees)
- ugly
- bad,gloomy (weather)
Inherited fromOld Catalanfeu, fromVulgar Latin*feus, fromFrankish*fehu, fromProto-Germanic*fehu.
feu m (pluralfeus)
- fiefdom,fee
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
(second-person plural present, subjunctive, imperative)
(third-person singular preterite)
feu
- inflection offer:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative/subjunctive
- third-personsingularpreteriteindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
feu (femininefea,masculine pluralfeus,feminine pluralfees)
- (Alghero)ugly
- (Alghero)ungrateful
- (Alghero) notgood
- (Alghero) morallybad
- “feu, -ea”, inDiccionari d'Alguerés, 2022 May 21 (last accessed)
Inherited fromOld Frenchfu, fromLatinfocus(“hearth”), which in Late and Vulgar Latin replaced the Classical Latinignis(“fire”).
feu m (pluralfeux)
- fire
- As-tu remarqué que tes cheveux sontenfeu ? ―Have you noticed that your hair is onfire?
- (uncountable, informal)lighter, something tolight acigarette with
- Tu aurais dufeu ? ―You got a light?
- traffic light
- feux tricolores ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- feux de signalisation ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
1999, Patrick Lemaire,Psychologie cognitive:« Si lefeu est vert, je passe »
« Si lefeu est rouge, je m’arrête »- ‘If thelight is green, I go.’
‘If thelight is red, I stop.’
- headlights
- feux de croisement ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- feux de route ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- feux de position ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- feux de détresse ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- → Karipúna Creole French:djife
Inherited fromOld Frenchfeüz,fadude(“one who has accomplished his destiny”), fromVulgar Latin*fatutus, fromLatinfatum(“destiny”).
feu (femininefeue,masculine pluralfeus,feminine pluralfeues)
- deceased, thelate
Elle était la sœur defeu Jean Dupont- She was the sister of thelate Jean Dupont
feu
- Alternative form offewe
FromOld Frenchfu.
feu m (pluralfeux)
- fire
FromOld Frenchfeu, fromLatinfocus(“hearth”).
feu m (pluralfeux)
- (Jersey)fire
- (Jersey, medicine)rash
Ultimately fromLatinfoedus. CompareSpanishfeo.
feu
- (Campidanese)dirty
FromOld Frenchfieu(“fief”).
feu (pluralfeus)
- (Scots law, property law)feud,tenure, piece of land held by that tenure
feu (third-person singular simple presentfeus,present participlefeuin,simple pastfeuit,past participlefeuit)
- togrant orhold land by tenure
- feuar(“one who holds land in feu”)
FromLatinfocus.
feu ?
- fire
