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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| fetid |
| SYLLABICATION: | fet·id |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f t  d, f td |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also foe·tid ( ftd) |
| ADJECTIVE: | Having an offensive odor. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Latin ftidus, from ftre, to stink. |
| OTHER FORMS: | fetid·ly —ADVERB fet id·ness —NOUN |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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