fetial

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfiːʃəl/
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• General-American: /ˈfiʃəl/
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From Latin fētiālis (“priest who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from enemies before formal declarations of war”). The root of the Latin word is thought to be Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- (“to do, place, put”), also the source of the verb Latin faciō (“to do; to build, construct; to appoint”). The nominalized form of this verb, Proto-Indo-European *dhéh1tis (“act of putting, placement”), would have developed into an Italic noun *fētis (unattested, but conjectured to mean something like "statute, treaty" or "prescription, law", developing to mean "body of priests"), which was combined with the adjective-forming suffix -ālis to yield Latin fētiālis. The unadapted Latin forms fetialis (singular) and fetiales (plural) are also used in English, sometimes with italicization, sometimes without.

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: fécial — concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace
• Galician: fecial — concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace
• Portuguese: fecial — concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace
• Catalan: fecial — member of Roman college of priests
• Galician: fecial — member of Roman college of priests
• Latin: fētiālis — member of Roman college of priests
• Norwegian: fetial — member of Roman college of priests
• Portuguese: fecial — member of Roman college of priests