# feo
## Asturian
### Adjective

feo
* neuter of feu

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* feu (Alghero)

### Etymology

First attested in the 20th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈfɛ.u]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈfɛ.o]
* IPA: (Valencia) unknown

### Adjective

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural fees)
* (Castilianism) ugly

#### Usage notes

* Often regarded "inadmissible" and not part of the literary language.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French fée and German Fee, by way of feino with the feminine suffix -ino.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfeo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eo
* Hyphenation: fe‧o

### Noun

feo (accusative singular feon, plural feoj, accusative plural feojn)
* fairy

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* feio

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeo/ [ˈfe.ʊ]
* Rhymes: -eo
* Hyphenation: fe‧o

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese feo, from Latin foedus (“hideous”).

#### Adjective

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas)
* ugly
    Synonyms: laido, edo, croucho, tocho
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudowho was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked

##### Derived terms

* feamente

##### Related terms

* fealdade

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese fẽo, from Latin faenum (“hay”). Cognate with Portuguese feno, Spanish heno.

#### Alternative forms

* feno, freo

#### Noun

feo m (plural feos)
* hay
** 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:Jtem. deue o potro comer feo, palla, herua, orio, auea, espelqa, que quer dizer melga, et as qousas semellauelles a esto, que naturalmente som para seu comer.Item. The foal must eat hay, straw, grass, barley, oat, spelt —that is, melga— and things that are similar to these, which are naturally for them to eat
* beachgrass

##### Derived terms

* Feais
* Feal
* feal
* Feáns
* Feás
* Fial
* Fiosa

##### Related terms

* fiollo
* fiúncho

### References

* “feo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “feo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “feo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “feo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “feo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “feo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* feochan

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /fʲoː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /fʲɔː/

### Noun

feo m (genitive singular as substantive feo, genitive as verbal noun feoite)
* verbal noun of feoigh
* decay

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Macanese
### Alternative forms

* fêo

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese feo. Compare Portuguese feio.

### Adjective

feo
* ugly
    feo olâ ― it doesn't look good (literally, “ugly look”)
    Ânsia feo olâ ― It is bad to be greedy (literally, “greed ugly look”)
    Estung'a quanto casa sâm bem di feoThese houses are very ugly

#### Usage notes

* feo olâ may be a calque of Cantonese 難睇 / 难睇 (naan$^4$ tai$^2$, “ugly”, literally “difficult to look (at)”) or otherwise related to this phrase.

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fe͜oː/

### Noun

fēo
* dative singular of feoh

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin foedus (“hideous”). Probably borrowed from other Ibero-Romance language, displacing native hedo. Cognate with Portuguese feio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeo/ [ˈfe.o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eo
* Syllabification: fe‧o

### Adjective

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas, superlative feísimo)
* ugly
    Antonyms: guapo, bonito, bello, hermoso
* (Mexico) bad, gross, mean, nasty
* in poor condition

#### Derived terms

* feo del baile, fea del baile (“wallflower, shrinking violet”)
* afear
* feamente
* bailar con la más fea
* bichofeo
* feo, fuerte, y formal
* hacer un feo
* más feo que Carracuca
* más feo que pegar a un padre
* más feo que Picio
* patito feo
* sexo feo

#### Related terms

* fealdad

### Further reading

* “feo”, 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