ferial

Etymology

From Old French ferial or Medieval Latin ferialis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹɪəl/

Adjective

ferial (not comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
2. Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     In a ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: —Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.

   • 1922, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, page 274:

     [They] dance within the magic shade

     That makes them drunken, merry, and strong

     To laugh and sing their ferial song :

     'Free, free . . . !'

Noun

ferial (plural ferials)

1. (ecclesiastical) A feria.

Anagrams

• A-lifer, failer, farlie, fraile

Adjective

ferial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular feriale)

1. ferial (pertaining to a holiday)

Adjective

ferial (plural feriales)

1. ferial, on a weekday