feto

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfeto/ Rhymes: -eto Syllabification: fe‧to === Noun === feto (accusative singular feton, plural fetoj, accusative plural fetojn) fetus ==== Derived terms ==== feta (“fetal”) == Ido == === Etymology === Borrowing from Esperanto feto, Latin feto, Italian feto, Portuguese feto, English fetus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfeto/ === Noun === feto (plural feti) fetus ==== Derived terms ==== fetala (“fetal”) == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin fētus, probably borrowed. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.to/ Rhymes: -ɛto Hyphenation: fè‧to === Noun === feto m (plural feti) fetus ==== Derived terms ==== fetale fetologia fetologo ==== See also ==== embrione == Latin == === Etymology === From fētus (“bearing young, fruitful”) +‎ -ō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeː.toː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.to] === Verb === fētō (present infinitive fētāre, perfect active fētāvī, supine fētātum); first conjugation (passive voice) to bring forth, breed (active voice) to impregnate; to make fruitful ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “feto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “feto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == North Moluccan Malay == === Etymology === From Ternate feto === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛtɔ/ === Verb === feto alternative form of bafeto ==== Derived terms ==== == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === feeyto (archaic) fento, feito, fieito, féntão (dialectal) === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛtu Hyphenation: fe‧to === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). ==== Noun ==== feto m (plural fetos) (embryology) fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation) (biology) fetus (unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal) ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From earlier fento, from Old Galician-Portuguese *feeyto, from Latin filictum (“place abounding in ferns”), from filix, filicem (“fern”). Cognate with Galician fento, fieito and Spanish helecho. ==== Noun ==== feto m (plural fetos) (Portugal) fern (any of a group of plants in the division Pteridophyta) Synonym: (Brazil) samambaia ===== Derived terms ===== feto-arborescente feto-fêmeo feto-macho fetusca ===== Related terms ===== fetal filícico filicina === Further reading === “feto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “feto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin fētus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfeto/ [ˈfe.t̪o] Rhymes: -eto Syllabification: fe‧to === Noun === feto m (plural fetos) fetus (derogatory, slang, Spain) a hideous person === Further reading === “feto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Ternate == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈfe.to] === Verb === feto (transitive) to complain about ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ North Moluccan Malay: bafeto === References === Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh == Tetum == === Etymology === Compare feton. === Noun === feto woman