fie

Clipping of English Fier.

fie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fyer.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fyer terms

• fy, fye

From Middle English fy, from Old French fi, from Latin fī. (with a possible additional influence from Old Norse). Compare Swedish fy.

• IPA^(key): /faɪ/

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• Homophone: phi
• Rhymes: -aɪ

fie

1. (archaic) Sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:

     Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 89:

     Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     "Fie upon them, forgetting their philosophy!"

   • 1920 March, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff (quote sourced to Kim Soan), “Formosa the Beautiful”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 284–285:

     I pleaded with my companions to spare his life, and they said, ‘Fie! shame upon you! You have a Chinese heart.’ Then they turned upon me to kill me as well, so I withdrew my petition. After that they cut off the woodsman's head, and we returned home.

   • 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 4:

     But the orthodox scientific world says fie! to the religious impulse. The scientist wants to discover a cause for everything.

• faugh
• fie away
• out upon

• EFI, FEI, IEF, Ife, Fei

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fie

1. inflection of fier:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin fīlia. Compare Italian and Romansch figlia, Romanian fie, French fille.

fie f (plural fiis)

1. daughter

• frute

• fi

fie

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of fiar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

fie

1. alternative form of fia, third-person singular future of fire

• fei, ife

fie

1. inflection of fiar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: fi‧e

Inherited from Latin fīat, third-person singular present passive subjunctive of fiō.

fie

1. third-person singular/plural subjunctive of fi (“to be”)

Inherited from Latin fīlia.

fie f (plural fii or fie)

1. (obsolete on its own) daughter

   Synonyms: fiică, fată

This form is only preserved as part of the colloquial suffixed possessive construction involving family members: fie-sa (“his daughter”), fie-mea (“my daughter”). The expected forms fiică-sa, fiică-mea are no less commmon.

• fiie — obsolete

• fiică

• fiu

• “fie”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

fie

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of fiar