festus

See also: Festus

Esperanto

Pronunciation
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Verb

festus

  1. conditional of festi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fēstos, from earlier *θēstos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁s-tos, from *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity; sacred place”). See also fānum and fēriae.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fēstus (feminine fēsta, neuter fēstum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fēstus fēsta fēstum fēstī fēstae fēsta
Genitive fēstī fēstae fēstī fēstōrum fēstārum fēstōrum
Dative fēstō fēstō fēstīs
Accusative fēstum fēstam fēstum fēstōs fēstās fēsta
Ablative fēstō fēstā fēstō fēstīs
Vocative fēste fēsta fēstum fēstī fēstae fēsta

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: feast
  • French: fête
  • Italian: festo, festa
  • Portuguese: festo

References
  • “fēstus1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “festus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • 1 fēstus1 in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “festus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “festus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fēriae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 212-213
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