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‖ Fitz|fɪts|
Forms: 3–4 fiz, (3 fyz), (5 fice, fytz), 4– fitz.
[AF. spelling of OF. fiz (pronounced fits):—earlier filz:—Lat. fīlius son.
The form is due to the phonetic law in OF. that a palatalized l caused a succeeding s to become ts (written z).]
The Anglo-French word for ‘son’; chiefly Hist. in patronymic designations, in which it was followed by the name of a parent in the uninflected genitive. Some of these survive as surnames, e.g. Fitzherbert, Fitzwilliam, etc.; in later times new surnames of the kind have been given to the illegitimate children of royal princes. † Also in 12–15th c. used occas. in adopted AF. phrases, beau fitz = ‘fair son’; fiz a putain = ‘whoreson’.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 432 Syre Roberd le Fyz Haim my fader name was. a1300Signa ante Judicium 179 in E.E.P. (1862) 12 Merci ihsu fiz mari. a1300Cursor M. 11879 (Gött.) ‘Fiz a putaines’, he said, ‘quat er ȝe?’ 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 311 ‘Beau fitz’, quaþ þe fader, ‘we shulleþ for defaute’. c1435Torr. Portugal 2098 Antony fice Greffown. c1450Merlin 299 Leff the lady, traitour fitz aputain! c1470Harding Chron. ccxli. iii, Henry le Fytz Empryce. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. Ded. 49 You shall be even in the language of the Apostle himself, Fitz-Dieu, A Son Of God. 1814Mrs. West Alicia de Lacy II. 92 The contentions of Henry Fitz-empress with Eleanora of Guienne.
b. nonce use. One whose surname begins with Fitz; i.e. an Irishman of Anglo-Norman extraction.
1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. (1858) II. 130 The Fitzes sometimes permitted themselves to speak with scorn of the O's and Macs. |