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feitico
Portuguese · 1400s
"a charm or magical object"
an object believed to have magical power, from Latin facticius (artificial, made)
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fetiche
French · 1600s
"an object believed to hold spiritual power"
carried into French through accounts of West African religious objects
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fetish
English · 1600s
"an object of obsessive attention or reverence"
settled as the English word, later broadened to any object of obsessive focus
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