foi

foi

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Foi terms

Borrowed from French foi.

foi (plural fois)

1. (heraldry) A depiction of a handshake.

• fo
• fó (obsolete)
• fui (Western)

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of dir

• IPA^(key): /βoi/

foi

1. alternative form of boi

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

• foe

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foi

1. bee (Apidae)

• “foi”, in The Choctaw Dictionary, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Inherited from Middle French foy, from Old French foi, fei, feid, from Latin fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /fwa/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophones: foie, foies, fois
• Hyphenation: foi

foi f (plural fois)

1. Faith.
2. (heraldry) A depiction of a handshake.

• féal
• fidèle

• Haitian Creole: fwa

• “foi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser

• feid, fid, fiet (archaic)
• fai, fei, foy

From Latin fidem.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈfei̯θ/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfoi̯/, (northern) /ˈfei̯/

foi oblique singular, f (oblique plural fois, nominative singular foi, nominative plural fois)

1. faith
2. allegiance; faithfulness
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 156 (of the Champion Classiques edition), →ISBN, line 1837:

     sa fei lealment li afie

     he loyally pledges his allegiance to him

• Champenois: fiate, fiaite
• Middle French: foy
  • French: foi
  • → English: foy, Foy
• Norman: fouai
• → Middle English: feith, feiþ, feyth, feyt, faith, faythe, fath, fai, fay, faye, fei, fey, feye
  • English: faith
  • Scots: faith
  • Yola: faaighe, faighe, faigh, fythe

• foy (obsolete)
• foe (obsolete)

• Audio (Brazil (São Paulo)):

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: foi

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
   • 1999, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 57:

     O jantar aquela noite foi muito agradável.

     The dinner that night was very pleasant.

foi

1. (Brazil) indicates that an action has been undertaken; done

   Synonym: feito

   — Pode enviar a mensagem? — Foi.

   “Can you send the message?”, “Done.”

Either from foaie +‎ -i or from a Vulgar Latin root *follīre, from Late Latin follēre, from Latin follis.

• IPA^(key): /foˈi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: fo‧i

a foi (third-person singular present foiește, past participle foit) 4th conjugation

1. (reflexive) to fuss, bustle, move about
2. (of a place) to be full of people who are busy, teem with

   Synonym: mișuna

• foale
• înfoia

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoj/
• Rhymes: -oj

foi f

1. inflection of foaie (“sheet”):
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive singular

• “foi”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.i/

foi (inanimate mafoi, animate dimfoi, polite gomafoi)

1. five

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as foy)