fatua

fatua f sg

1. feminine singular of fatuo

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.tu.a/, [ˈfät̪uä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.tu.a/, [ˈfäːt̪uä]

fatua

1. inflection of fatuus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

fatuā

1. ablative feminine singular of fatuus

fatua f (genitive fatuae, masculine fatuus); first declension

1. a fool (female)

First-declension noun.

• “fatua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fatua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfatwa/ [ˈfa.t̪wa]
• Rhymes: -atwa
• Syllabification: fa‧tua

fatua f sg

1. feminine singular of fatuo

Borrowed from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”). مُفْتٍ (muftin, “mufti”) is the active participle of the same verb.

• fatwa, fetua

fatua f (plural fatuas)

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti)