From en.wiktionary.org:
[Fee]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en] with contamination from [en],
[fro] (from [en], a variant of [la] (see [en]), from [en]; whence [en]), both
from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [goh], [sco], [sco], [fy], [nl], [nds], [nds], [de], [da], [sv],
[no], [is], [la], [sa].
*** Pronunciation
- [fē] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An amount charged for a privilege.
2. An amount charged for professional services.
3. * [en]
4. [en] An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good , especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
5. [en] An inheritable estate in land , whether absolute and without limitation to potential heir s ( fee simple ) or with limitation s to particular kind s of heir s ( fee tail ).
6. [en] A right to the use of a superior 's land as a stipend for certain service s to be performed , typically military service .
7. [en] [en] : the land so held .
8. [en] An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain service s, typically military service .
9. [en] [en] .
10. * [en]
11. * 1844 , Basa Sunda: The Heritage , by [James Russell Lowell]
12. *: What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in FEE .
13. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1915 | author= 吴语: W. Somerset Maugham | title=w:Of Human Bondage | section= Basa Sunda: Of Human Bondage/Chapter CXXI
|passage=Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him
who by the power of fancy held in FEE the twin realms of space and time.}}
1. [en] Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument .
2. [en] A prize or reward . Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
3. * [passage=For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the FEE .]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|absolute fee simple |advance fee fraud |advance fee scam |alms-fee
|amenity fee |attorney's fee |base fee |bullet fee |composition fee
|conditional fee |court fee |defeasible fee |destination fee |entry fee |exit
fee |facility fee |feeable |feebate |fee-fees |fee fees
|fee-for-service|convenience fee |feeless |feepayer |feepaying |fee schedule
|fee simple |fee-splitting |fee splitting |fee tail |feevee |filing fee
|finder's fee |frank-fee |gas fee |great fee |handling fee |in fee |joining
fee |junk fee |kill fee |kitchen-fee |knight's fee |late fee |license fee
|licensing fee |nonfee |nuisance fee |qualified fee |registration fee |resort
fee |service fee |setup fee |stole-fee |stole fee |unfeed |urban fee }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[monetary payment charged for professional services]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian:
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [royalty, honorarium] [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[amount charged for a privilege]
- Esperanto: [eo]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1693 | author=w:John Dryden | chapter=The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus | title=The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
|passage=In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And FEES the doctor; but
too late is wise}}
1. * {{ RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth | III | iv
|passage=There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant FEED.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1847 | author=w:Herman Melville | title=Omoo
|passage=We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to
vaulting over the picket, FEED our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.}}
1. * [en]
*** See also
- [pedia]
- [en] [probably etymologically unrelated]
*** References
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Afrikaans
*** Etymology
From [af].
*** Pronunciation
- [af]
*** Noun
[feë]
1. fairy , pixie
**** Related terms
- [af]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl], from [nl], from [nl], from [nl], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [nl] fairy
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [af]
- [fy]
** Luxembourgish
*** Verb
[lb]
1. [lb]
** Manx
*** Etymology 1
[gv] From [gv], from [gv], from [gv]. Cognate with [ga].
**** Verb
[gv-verb]
1. to weave , knit
2. to plait , braid
3. to interlace , intertwine
4. to mat
**** Noun
[m]
1. [gv]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[gv]
1. [gv]
2. [gv]
*** Mutation
[f]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Murui Huitoto
*** Etymology
Cognates include [hto] and [hux].
*** Pronunciation
- [huu-IPA]
- [huu]
*** Root
[huu]
1. fly ing
**** Derived terms
{{col4|huu |feede|feeya}}
*** References
- [page=556]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Noun
[nn]
1. [1917] [nn]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[f]
1. fairy
**** Declension
[ro-noun-f-e-e]
** West Frisian
*** Pronunciation
- [fy]
*** Etymology 1
[fy] From [fy], from [fy].
**** Noun
[n]
1. livestock
***** Further reading
- [21642]
*** Etymology 2
Borrowed from [fy], from [fy].
**** Noun
[c]
1. fairy
***** Further reading
- [21641]