# fess
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
    Rhymes: -ɛs

### Etymology 1

From confess, by shortening.

#### Verb

fess (third-person singular simple present fesses, present participle fessing, simple past and past participle fessed)
* To confess; to admit.

##### Derived terms

* fess up

### Etymology 2

From Middle English fesse, from Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Cognate with fajita, fascia, and fascism.

#### Alternative forms

* fesse, feese

#### Noun

fess (plural fesses)
* (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
    Hypernym: ordinary
    Coordinate terms: bar, barrulet, closet
** 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Norton, published 2005, page 294:Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.
** 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 420:The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.

##### Derived terms

* fess point
* fessways
* fesswise
* per fess

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

fess
* (UK dialect) Proud; conceited.
** 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"
* (UK dialect) Lively; active; strong.
* (UK dialect) Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.

### Anagrams

* FSes

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛʃː]
* Rhymes: -ɛʃː

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Viennese German fesch (“smart, stylish”), from English fashionable.

#### Adjective

fess (comparative fessebb, superlative legfessebb)
* (colloquial, dated) smart, stylish, chic

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

fest +‎ -j

#### Verb

fess
* second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of fest

### References

* ↑ fess in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
* ↑ fess in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* fess in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French fesse.

### Noun

fess
* bottom, buttock, arse

### References

* Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

Named after the city of Fez, Morocco.

#### Noun

fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)
* fez

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* Fess (alternative capitalization)

#### Noun

fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)
* (music) F-flat

##### Derived terms

* fess-dur m
* fess-moll m

### References

* “fess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɸʲes]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *westā (“staying the night; feast”).

#### Alternative forms

* feis, feiss (original dative used as nominative)

#### Noun

fess f (genitive feisse)
* verbal noun of foïd: (act of) spending the night
* evening entertainment, feast, festival

##### Declension

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

##### Descendants

* Irish: feis
* Scottish Gaelic: feis

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *wissos, from Proto-Indo-European *widtós; akin to Welsh gwŷs and Middle Breton gous.

#### Verb

·fess
* passive singular perfect prototonic of ro·finnadar

### Mutation

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

## Seychellois Creole
### Etymology

From French fesse.

### Noun

fess
* bottom, buttock, arse

### References

* Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛsː/
* Rhymes: -ɛsː

### Noun

fess n
* (music) F-flat; the note F♭

#### Related terms

* fiss