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The word fi in Latin could be an interjection expressing disgust at a bad smell (equivalent to English "phew!"), or an imperative form of the verb fieri, "be made; be done".

However, if you hear fi quoted in a Latin context nowadays, it's most probably neither of these, but an abbreviation of the word fidelis in the U.S. Marine Corps motto Semper fidelis, "always faithful". This, however, is an English-language usage and not a Latin one.

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