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English word fetish comes from Romanian facio, Latin -icium, and later Latin factum (Achievement. Fact, deed, act.)
facio (Romanian)
-icium (Latin)
facio (Latin)
I appoint.. I do. I make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect. I make, produce, compose.
factum (Latin)
Achievement. Fact, deed, act.
facticius (Latin)
(Post-Augustan) made by art, artificial, factitious.
feitiço (Portuguese)
Feigned, false Amulet, charm. Incantation. Witchcraft, sorcery.
fétiche (French)
(religion) animist. (sexuality) fetish, used as a sexual fetish. Bringing good luck (figuratively) amulet. (religion) fetish, idol. (sexuality) fetish.
fetish (English)
(US) An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession. [from the 19th c.]. Sexual attraction to or arousal at something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body. [from the early 19th c.]. Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. [from the early 17th c.].