foie

Meaning

1. liver
2. liver (as food)

Concepts

liver

innards

lungs

🫁

offal

pancreas

brain as food

heart as food

kidney as food

liver as food

lung as food

stomach as food

heart

❤️

tongue as food

Synonyms

langue

👅

abats

cervelle

🧠

cœur

❤️

courage

mou

pancréas

rognon

tripes

coeur

poumons

foie-de-bœuf

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fwa/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French: foie

Inherited from Latin: iecur fīcātum

Cognate with Italian: fegato

Cognate with Catalan: fetge

In summary

Inherited from Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver (as food)”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesed to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.