faim

Meaning

hunger (desire of food)
hunger (strong desire)

Frequency

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɛ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French faim, fain, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, Portuguese fome, Italian fame and Romanian foame.

Cognate with Galician

fame

Cognate with Portuguese

fome

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