fee
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”). Cognate with Old High German fihu (“cattle, neat”), Scots fe, fie (“cattle, sheep, livestock, deer, goods, property, wealth, money, wages”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Veh, German Vieh (“cattle, livestock”), Danish fæ (“cattle, beast, dolt”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Norwegian fe (“cattle”), Icelandic fé (“livestock, assets, money”), Latin pecū (“cattle”), Sanskrit पशु (paśu, “cattle”).
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editNoun
editfee (plural fees)
- An amount charged for a privilege.
- late fee; license fee, admission fee; activation fee; service fee
- An amount charged for professional services.
- legal fees; consulting fees
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
- (law) An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
- (law, historical) A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
- (law, historical) Synonym of fief: the land so held.
- (law, historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
- (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of possession.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, “On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic”, in Poems in Two Volumes:
- Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;
- 1844, The Heritage, by James Russell Lowell
- What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121:
- Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.
- (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
- (obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.
Derived terms
edit- absolute fee simple
- advance fee fraud
- advance fee scam
- alms-fee
- amenity fee
- attorney's fee
- base fee
- bullet fee
- composition fee
- conditional fee
- court fee
- defeasible fee
- destination fee
- entry fee
- exit fee
- facility fee
- fee-fees
- fee fees
- fee-for-service
- feepayer
- feepaying
- fee schedule
- fee schedule
- fee simple
- fee-splitting
- fee splitting
- fee tail
- filing fee
- finder's fee
- frank-fee
- gas fee
- great fee
- handling fee
- in fee
- joining fee
- junk fee
- kill fee
- kitchen-fee
- knight's fee
- knight's fee
- late fee
- license fee
- licensing fee
- nuisance fee
- qualified fee
- registration fee
- resort fee
- service fee
- setup fee
- stole-fee
- stole fee
- urban fee
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Verb
editfee (third-person singular simple present fees, present participle feeing, simple past and past participle feed)
- To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
- 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:
- In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo:
- We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
- It was at a much earlier hour than that which Mrs. Santon had named, that Delwood presented himself, and handsomely feeing the porter who answered his summons, he asked to see Miss Santon […]
See also
editfee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- fee-faw-fum (probably etymologically unrelated)
References
edit- “fee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Noun
editfee (plural feë, diminutive feetjie)
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editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French fée, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French fae, from Latin fāta, from fātum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfee f (plural feeën, diminutive feetje n)
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Manx
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish figid, from Proto-Celtic *wegyeti (“to weave, compose”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to spin, weave”). Cognate with Irish figh.
Verb
editfee
Noun
editfee m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
- verbal noun of fee
Etymology 2
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editfee m
Mutation
editManx mutation | ||
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Middle English
editNoun
editfee
- Alternative form of fey (“liver”)
Murui Huitoto
editEtymology
editCognates include Minica Huitoto fee and Nüpode Huitoto pee.
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editReferences
edit- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 556
Norwegian Nynorsk
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editfee n
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editfee f (plural fee)
Declension
editWest Frisian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Frisian fia, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).
Noun
editfee n (no plural)
Further reading
edit- “fee (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Dutch fee, from French fée.
Noun
editfee c (plural feeën, diminutive feeke)
Further reading
edit- “fee (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peḱ- (livestock)
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