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noun, feminine

fève

/fɛv/

noun, feminine/fɛv/plural: fèves

strictly, a broad bean (Vicia faba); non-legume beans, as in coffee beans; the trinket in a king cake (galette des rois) – originally an actual broad bean, today often a plastic, metal or porcelain figurine; bean

Inherited from Old French feve, from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Spanish haba, Italian fava.