[ˈfeː.tʊs], [ˈfɛː.tus]
OriginFrom Proto-Italic *fētos, from earlier *θētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-to-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”) + *-tós, see also Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck, suckle”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem, “to suck mother's milk”), Lithuanian žįsti (“to suckle, nurse”), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti, “to breastfeed, suckle”).
- adjective, declension-1, declension-2pregnant, full of young
- adjective, declension-1, declension-2of one who has recently given birth, of one that has newly delivered; nursing
“dumque petit latebrās fētae catulōsque leaenae,” — And while he was seeking the hiding places and the cubs of a nursing lioness, he himself became the bloodstained prey of the Libyan wild [beast].
(See Hyas.)
- adjective, declension-1, declension-2, figurativelyfruitful, fertile, productive, teeming with, full of, big
“… Scandit fātālis māchina mūrōs / fēta armīs.” — “The engine of our fate climbs the walls, teeming with armed warriors.”
(The wooden horse entering Troy will soon “give birth” to the Greek soldiers hidden in its “womb.” See also: machina.)
- declension-4, rarea bearing, birth, bringing forth
“Nunc de Alcumena dudum quod dixi minus,
hodie illa pariet filios geminos duos
alter decumo post mense nascetur puer
quam seminatust, alter mense septumo;
eorum Amphitruonis alter est, alter Iovis:
ver” — (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- declension-4, poeticoffspring, young, progeny
“Atque ut intellegamus nihil horum esse fortuitum et haec omnia esse opera providae sollertisque naturae, quae multiplices fetus procreant, ut sues, ut canes, iis mammarum data est multitudo, quas easd” — (please add an English translation of this quotation)
“Nec mora, traxit Ityn, veluti Gangetica cervae
lactentem fetum per silvas tigris opacas,
utque domus altae partem tenuere remotam,
tendentemque manus et iam sua fata videntem
et 'mater! mater!' claman” — (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- declension-4fruit, product; bearing, produce
“Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte” — Translation by James B. Greenough
Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise
The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered
The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;
So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and
- declension-4, figurativelygrowth, production
- New-Latin, declension-4a fetus
“Postremo, comparatione inter excerebrationem fetus et sectionem caesaream ac partum praematurum artificialem facta, nobis apparuit, containdicatam esse excerebrationem:[…]” — Finally, the comparison having been completed between the excerebration of the fetus, the caesarean section, and premature induced birth, excerebration has appeared to us to be contraindicated: […]
Formsfētus(canonical) · fēta(feminine) · fētum(neuter) · fētus(masculine, nominative, singular) · fēta(feminine, nominative, singular) · fētum(neuter, nominative, singular) · fētī(masculine, nominative, plural) · fētae(feminine, nominative, plural) · fēta(neuter, nominative, plural) · fētī(genitive, masculine, singular) · fētae(feminine, genitive, singular) · fētī(genitive, neuter, singular) · fētōrum(genitive, masculine, plural) · fētārum(feminine, genitive, plural) · fētōrum(genitive, neuter, plural) · fētō(dative, masculine, singular) · fētae(dative, feminine, singular) · fētō(dative, neuter, singular) · fētīs(dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural) · fētum(accusative, masculine, singular)
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