"feu" meaning in French

See feu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /fø/ Audio: Fr-feu.ogg Forms: feue [feminine], feus [masculine, plural], feues [feminine, plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French feüz, fadude (“one who has accomplished his destiny”), from Vulgar Latin *fatutus, from Latin fatum (“destiny”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|feüz|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French feüz, {{inh+|fr|fro|feüz}} Inherited from Old French feüz, {{inh|fr|VL.|*fatutus}} Vulgar Latin *fatutus, {{inh|fr|la|fatum||destiny}} Latin fatum (“destiny”) Head templates: {{fr-adj}} feu (feminine feue, masculine plural feus, feminine plural feues)
  1. deceased, the late
    Sense id: en-feu-fr-adj-9SDsPfmp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /fø/ Audio: Fr-feu.ogg Forms: feux [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French fu, from Latin focus (“hearth”), which in Late and Vulgar Latin replaced the Classical Latin ignis (“fire”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|fu|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French fu, {{inh+|fr|fro|fu}} Inherited from Old French fu, {{inh|fr|la|focus||hearth}} Latin focus (“hearth”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|x}} feu m (plural feux)
  1. fire Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-feu-fr-noun-3J8osS3R
  2. (uncountable, informal) lighter, something to light a cigarette with Tags: informal, masculine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-feu-fr-noun-ehjv9DHt Categories (other): French terms with collocations
  3. traffic light Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Light sources, Roads
    Sense id: en-feu-fr-noun-NNc5ljV3 Disambiguation of Light sources: 4 1 18 60 17 Disambiguation of Roads: 2 1 11 85 2 Categories (other): French terms with collocations
  4. headlights Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-feu-fr-noun-0j5LrCQN Categories (other): French terms with collocations, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 12 1 15 29 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: foyer, fouace, fougasse

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "à petit feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "à plein feux"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "allume-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "arme à feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "au coin du feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "au feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "avoir le feu au cul"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "avoir le feu aux fesses"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baptême du feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "bouche à feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boule de feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "briller de mille feux"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cessez-le-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "combattre le feu par le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "coup de feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "coupe-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cracheur de feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cure-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dans le feu de l’action"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "du feu de Dieu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "en feu"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "épreuve du feu"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "épreuve par le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "être pris entre deux feux"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "faire long feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de Bengale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de camp"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de forêt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de joie"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de paille"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de peloton"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu de salve"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu d’artifice"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu follet"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu grégeois"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu orange"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu rouge"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu roulant"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu sacré"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feu vert"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feutier"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feux croisés"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feux de croisement"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feux de détresse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feux de la rampe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feux de position"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "feux de route"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "garde-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "il n’y a pas le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "il n’y a pas le feu au lac"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "jeter de l’huile sur le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "jette-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "jouer avec le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mettre à feu et à sang"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mettre de l’huile sur le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mettre le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mettre sa main au feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mise à feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mouche à feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mouche de feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "n’y voir que du feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ouvrir le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pare-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "passer au feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "péter le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pique-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pot-au-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pousser le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "prendre feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puissance de feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "sans feu ni lieu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "serre-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "sous les feux de la rampe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "surveiller comme le lait sur le feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Terre de Feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tire-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tirer les marrons du feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "toc-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "toque-feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tornade de feu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tout feu tout flamme"
    }
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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          "english": "Have you noticed that your hair is on fire?",
          "text": "As-tu remarqué que tes cheveux sont en feu ?",
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          "english": "You got a light?",
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          "_dis": "4 1 18 60 17",
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          "name": "Light sources",
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            "Light",
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            "Nature",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "_dis": "2 1 11 85 2",
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        {
          "text": "feux tricolores",
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        },
        {
          "text": "feux de signalisation",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "english": "‘If the light is green, I go.’\n‘If the light is red, I stop.’",
          "ref": "1999, Patrick Lemaire, Psychologie cognitive:",
          "text": "« Si le feu est vert, je passe »\n« Si le feu est rouge, je m’arrête »",
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        "traffic light"
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          "text": "feux de croisement",
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          "text": "feux de route",
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        {
          "text": "feux de position",
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          "text": "feux de détresse",
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      "word": "à petit feu"
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      "word": "à plein feux"
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      "word": "arme à feu"
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      "word": "briller de mille feux"
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      "word": "combattre le feu par le feu"
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    {
      "word": "coup de feu"
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      "word": "cracheur de feu"
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      "word": "cure-feu"
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      "word": "dans le feu de l’action"
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      "word": "du feu de Dieu"
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      "word": "en feu"
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      "word": "épreuve par le feu"
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      "word": "être pris entre deux feux"
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      "word": "feu de Bengale"
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      "word": "feu de joie"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu de paille"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu de peloton"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu de salve"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu d’artifice"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu follet"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu grégeois"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu orange"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu rouge"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu roulant"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu sacré"
    },
    {
      "word": "feu vert"
    },
    {
      "word": "feutier"
    },
    {
      "word": "feux croisés"
    },
    {
      "word": "feux de croisement"
    },
    {
      "word": "feux de détresse"
    },
    {
      "word": "feux de la rampe"
    },
    {
      "word": "feux de position"
    },
    {
      "word": "feux de route"
    },
    {
      "word": "garde-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "il n’y a pas le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "il n’y a pas le feu au lac"
    },
    {
      "word": "jeter de l’huile sur le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "jette-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "jouer avec le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "mettre à feu et à sang"
    },
    {
      "word": "mettre de l’huile sur le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "mettre le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "mettre sa main au feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "mise à feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "mouche à feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "mouche de feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "n’y voir que du feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "ouvrir le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "pare-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "passer au feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "péter le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "pique-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "pot-au-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "pousser le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "prendre feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "puissance de feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "sans feu ni lieu"
    },
    {
      "word": "serre-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "sous les feux de la rampe"
    },
    {
      "word": "surveiller comme le lait sur le feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "Terre de Feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "tire-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "tirer les marrons du feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "toc-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "toque-feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "tornade de feu"
    },
    {
      "word": "tout feu tout flamme"
    }
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      "word": "foyer"
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          "text": "feux tricolores",
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          "text": "feux de croisement",
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          "text": "feux de route",
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          "text": "feux de position",
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          "text": "feux de détresse",
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        }
      ],
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        "headlights"
      ],
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          "headlights",
          "headlights"
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      ],
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        "masculine"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/fø/"
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      "form": "feue",
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