feto

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeto/
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: fe‧to

feto (accusative singular feton, plural fetoj, accusative plural fetojn)

1. fetus
   • 1993, Donald Broadribb, transl., La Respubliko, Matraville: Libroservo de la Aŭstralia Esperanto-Asocio, translation of πολιτεια by Plato, published 2000, →ISBN:

     Personoj pliaĝaj rajtas koiti laŭvole, sed se koncipiĝos rezultas, ili devas abortigi la feton aŭ ĝin mortigi post la nasko.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• feta (“fetal”)

• “feto”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “feto”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowing from Esperanto feto, Latin feto, Italian feto, Portuguese feto, English fetus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeto/

feto (plural feti)

1. fetus

• fetala (“fetal”)

From Latin fētus, probably borrowed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: fè‧to

feto m (plural feti)

1. fetus

• fetale
• fetologia
• fetologo

• embrione

From fētus (“bearing young, fruitful”) + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.to]

fētō (present infinitive fētāre, perfect active fētāvī, supine fētātum); first conjugation

1. (passive voice) to bring forth, breed
2. (active voice) to impregnate; to make fruitful

• “feto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “feto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Ternate feto

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛtɔ/

feto

1. alternative form of bafeto

• feeyto (archaic)
• fento, feito, fieito, féntão (dialectal)

• Rhymes: -ɛtu
• Hyphenation: fe‧to

Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”).

feto m (plural fetos)

1. (embryology) fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)
2. (biology) fetus (unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal)

From earlier fento, from Old Galician-Portuguese *feeyto, from Latin filictum (“place abounding in ferns”), from filix, filicem (“fern”).

Cognate with Galician fento, fieito and Spanish helecho.

feto m (plural fetos)

1. (Portugal) fern (any of a group of plants in the division Pteridophyta)

   Synonym: (Brazil) samambaia

• feto-arborescente
• feto-fêmeo
• feto-macho
• fetusca

• fetal
• filícico
• filicina

• “feto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “feto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Learned borrowing from Latin fētus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeto/ [ˈfe.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: fe‧to

feto m (plural fetos)

1. fetus
2. (derogatory, slang, Spain) a hideous person

• “feto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈfe.to]

feto

1. (transitive) to complain about

• ⇒ North Moluccan Malay: bafeto

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Compare feton.

feto

1. woman