15,000 words and phrases from more than 50 languages and their

127 feria
British, chief of police; in some parts of India, a village constable:
India.
fausse tortue [Fr], mock turtle: cookery.
faute [Fr], fault; imperfection; mistake; also, lack; want. —faute de
mieux, for want of something better. —sans faute, without fail.
fauteuil [Fr], armchair; theater stall.
faux [Fr; fern, fausse], false; erroneous; wrong; sham. —faux brave,
swaggerer; braggart. —faux feu, flash in the pan. —faux frais,
incidental expenses. —faux jour, false light; arch., borrowed light.
—faux pas, false step; slip in behavior; social indiscretion.
favete linguis [L], lit., favor with your tongues (i.e., utter no ill-omened
word to mar the religious rite); be silent: Horace.
fax mentis incendium gloriae [L], the passion for glory is the torch
of the mind.
faze bem, nao cates a quern [Pg], do good, never mind to whom.
fecit [L; pl. fecerunt], lit., he (or she) made (it): appended to the artist's
name on a picture; abbr. fee, pl. ff.
fedaya [Ar; pl. fedayeen or fedayin], member of Arab anti-Israel
organization.
Feiertag [Ger; pl. Feiertage], holiday.
felice ritorno! [It], happy return!
felicitas multos habet amicos [L], happiness {or prosperity) has many
friends.
féliciter [L], happily; fortunately.
felix culpa! [L], O fault most fortunate!: St. Augustine (alluding to the
fall of our first parents, and the consequent coming of the Redeemer).
felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas [L], happy is he who has
been able to penetrate into the causes of things: Virgil.
fellah [Ar; pl. fellahin], peasant; cultivator.
felo-de-se [LL; pl. felos-de-se], a committer of felony by self-murder;
self-murderer; also, self-murder; suicide: law.
femme [Fr; pl. femmes], woman; wife. —femme célibataire, unmarried
woman. —femme couverte or femme mariée, married woman: law.
—femme de chambre, lady's maid; chambermaid. —femme de charge,
housekeeper. —femme de journée, a cleaning woman. —femme
galante, prostitute; courtesan. —femme incomprise, a woman unappreciated
or not understood. —femme sage, a virtuous woman.
—femme savante, a learned woman; a woman of literary interests.
fendre un cheveu en quatre [Fr], to split a hair into four; make overly
subtle distinctions.
fendu [Fr; fern, fendue], lit., split; cut open; slashed: said of a style of
dress decoration. —bien fendu, long-legged.
fenouil [Fr], fennel.
ferae naturae [L], of a wild nature; not domesticated.
feria [Sp], a fair; fiesta.