# feto
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfeto]
* Rhymes: -eto
* Hyphenation: fe‧to

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* feta (“fetal”)

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeto/

### Noun

feto (plural feti)
* fetus

#### Derived terms

* fetala (“fetal”)

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin fētus, probably borrowed.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛ.to/
* Rhymes: -ɛto
* Hyphenation: fè‧to

### Noun

feto m (plural feti)
* fetus

#### Derived terms

* fetale
* fetologia
* fetologo

#### See also

* embrione

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfeː.toː/, [ˈfeːt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfe.to/, [ˈfɛːt̪o]

### Verb

fētō (present infinitive fētāre, perfect active fētāvī, supine fētātum); first conjugation
* (passive voice) to bring forth, breed
* (active voice) to impregnate; to make fruitful

#### Related terms

* fētālia
* fētificō
* fētōsus
* fētūra
* fētūrātus
* fētus

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: fet, fitare
* Catalan: feda
* Neapolitan: fetà
* Piedmontese: fe
* Romanian: făta, fătare
* Sardinian: fedare, afedai
* Sicilian: fitari
* Spanish: jedar

### References

* “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.

## North Moluccan Malay
### Etymology

From Ternate feto

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛtɔ/

### Verb

feto
* Alternative form of bafeto

#### Derived terms

* pambafeto

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛ.tu/
* Rhymes: -ɛtu
* Hyphenation: fe‧to

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”).

#### Noun

feto m (plural fetos)
* (embryology) fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)
* (biology) fetus (unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal)

##### Related terms

* fetal
* fetalização
* feticida
* feticídio
* fetologia

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Noun

feto m (plural fetos)
* (Portugal) fern (any of a group of plants in the division Pteridophyta)
    Synonym: (Brazil) samambaia

##### Derived terms

* feto-arborescente
* feto-fêmeo
* feto-macho
* fetusca

##### Related terms

* fetal
* filícico
* filicina

## Spanish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fētus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeto/ [ˈfe.t̪o]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -eto
* Syllabification: fe‧to

### Noun

feto m (plural fetos)
* fetus
* (derogatory, slang, Spain) a hideous person

### Further reading

* “feto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfe.to]

### Verb

feto
* (transitive) to complain about

#### Descendants

* ⇒ North Moluccan Malay: bafeto

### References

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

## Tetum
### Etymology

Compare feton.

### Noun

feto
* woman