fétiche
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Compare the doublet factice (a borrowing directly from the Latin), as well as the inherited Old French faitis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe.tiʃ/
Audio (file)
Noun
fétiche m (plural fétiches)
- (religion) fetish, idol
- La sculpture caduveo (...) se limite (...) à des fétiches et des représentations de dieux toujours de petites dimensions. (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie struct., 1958)
- (figuratively) amulet
- Synonym: porte-bonheur
- Il affectait de redouter les détours de la chance; il portait un fétiche d'or au milieu de son trousseau de clés. (Duhamel, Combat ombres, 1939)
- (sexuality) fetish
- La possession et la contemplation du fétiche provoquent soit l'orgasme sexuel, soit simplement des jouissances sentimentales platoniques. (Guiraud ds Lafon 1969)
Derived terms
- féticher
- féticheur
- fétichique
- fétichiser
- fétichisme
- fétichiste
Descendants
- → Spanish: fetiche (see there for further descendants)
Adjective
fétiche (plural fétiches)
Further reading
- “fétiche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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