festa

See also: Festa, fèsta, and fešta

English

Noun

festa (plural festas)

  1. A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin festa < Latin festum.

Noun

festa f (plural festes)

  1. celebration; party

Derived terms

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfesta/
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ta

Adjective

festa (accusative singular festan, plural festaj, accusative plural festajn)

  1. festive

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛsta]

Verb

festa (third person singular past indicative festi, third person plural past indicative fest, supine fest)

  1. to fasten, to make fast

Usage notes

  • festa fót - make a settlement

Conjugation

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

  1. party (social gathering)
  2. holiday (day free of work)

Synonyms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛsta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsta

Verb

festa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative festi, supine fest)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to fasten
  2. (transitive, with accusative) to determine, to fix, to settle

Conjugation

festast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að festast
supine
(sagnbót)		 fest
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 festandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég festist við festumst present
(nútíð)		 ég festist við festumst
þú festist þið festist þú festist þið festist
hann, hún, það festist þeir, þær, þau festast hann, hún, það festist þeir, þær, þau festist
past
(þátíð)		 ég festist við festumst past
(þátíð)		 ég festist við festumst
þú festist þið festust þú festist þið festust
hann, hún, það festist þeir, þær, þau festust hann, hún, það festist þeir, þær, þau festust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 fest (þú) festist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
festu festisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

Noun

festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

  1. resoluteness, steadfastness

Declension

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fēsta, feminine form of fēstus (“festive”), ultimatey from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁s-, zero-grade form of s-stem nouns derived from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛs.ta/, [ˈfɛs̪t̪ä]
  • Audio (IT)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛsta
  • Stress: fèsta
  • Hyphenation: fe‧sta

Noun

festa f (plural feste)

  1. feast
  2. holiday (civil)
  3. (in the plural) holidays (British), vacation (US)
  4. fair (often in combination)

Anagrams

Ladin

Etymology

From Late Latin festa, from Latin festa, plural of festum.

Noun

festa f (plural festes)

  1. (official) holiday

Latin

Noun

festa f (genitive festae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) party
  2. (Late Latin) feast

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative festa festae
genitive festae festārum
dative festae festīs
accusative festam festās
ablative festā festīs
vocative festa festae

Adjective

fēsta

  1. inflection of fēstus:
    1. nominative and vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative and accusative and vocative neuter plural

fēstā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fēstus

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

festa

  1. simple past of feste
  2. past participle of feste

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲesta/

Verb

·festa

  1. second-person singular past subjunctive and conditional prototonic of ro·finnadar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
·festa ·ḟesta ·festa
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese festa, from Vulgar Latin festa < Latin festum.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfɛʃ.tɐ/
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ta

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

  1. party
    Vamos começar a festa.
    Let's get the party started.
    A festa acabou.
    The party's over.
  2. celebration
  3. festival
  4. (religion) feast

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

fest +‎ -a

Verb

festa (present festar, preterite festade, supine festat, imperative festa)

  1. to party (to celebrate at a party)

Conjugation

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