noun, feminine/fe/plural: fées
fairy, fay
Related: conte de fées, doigts de fée, fée des dents, Fée des étoiles, fée du logis, fée verte, mains de fée, Morgane la fée
Inherited from Old French fae, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada, Italian fata, Spanish hada.