festival
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- feastiuall (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: fes‧tiv‧al
Adjective edit
festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)
- Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]
Noun edit
festival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)
- (biblical) A feast or feast day.
- 2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:
- All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.
- An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
- A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
- In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
- (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French festival, from Latin fēstīvālis.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [fəs.tiˈβal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [fəs.tiˈval]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [fes.tiˈval]
Noun edit
festival m (plural festivals)
Derived terms edit
- festival de cinema (“film festival”)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “festival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Derived from English festival.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival m inan
- festival (an event or community gathering)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | festival | festivaly |
genitive | festivalu | festivalů |
dative | festivalu | festivalům |
accusative | festival | festivaly |
vocative | festivale | festivaly |
locative | festivale, festivalu | festivalech |
instrumental | festivalem | festivaly |
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)
- A festival (festive event or gathering).
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Estonian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival (genitive festivali, partitive festivali)
Declension edit
Declension of festival (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | festival | festivalid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | festivali | ||
genitive | festivalide | ||
partitive | festivali | festivale festivalisid | |
illative | festivali festivalisse |
festivalidesse festivalesse | |
inessive | festivalis | festivalides festivales | |
elative | festivalist | festivalidest festivalest | |
allative | festivalile | festivalidele festivalele | |
adessive | festivalil | festivalidel festivalel | |
ablative | festivalilt | festivalidelt festivalelt | |
translative | festivaliks | festivalideks festivaleks | |
terminative | festivalini | festivalideni | |
essive | festivalina | festivalidena | |
abessive | festivalita | festivalideta | |
comitative | festivaliga | festivalidega |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “festival”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (online version, not updated, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “festival”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “festival”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018
- festival in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
French edit
Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from English festival, from Old French festival.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival m (plural festivals)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “festival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Noun edit
festival (first-person possessive festivalku, second-person possessive festivalmu, third-person possessive festivalnya)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English festival.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.sti.val/, (traditional) /fe.stiˈval/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛstival, (traditional) -al
- Hyphenation: fè‧sti‧val, (traditional) fe‧sti‧vàl
Noun edit
festival m (invariable)
- festival
- worker's festival
Synonyms edit
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References edit
- ^ festival in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin festivalis, via English festival.
Noun edit
festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)
- a festival
References edit
- “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin festivalis, via English festival.
Noun edit
festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)
- a festival
References edit
- “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival m (plural festivais)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French festival.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
festival n (plural festivaluri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) festival | festivalul | (niște) festivaluri | festivalurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) festival | festivalului | (unor) festivaluri | festivalurilor |
vocative | festivalule | festivalurilor |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | festìvāl | festivali |
genitive | festivála | festivala |
dative | festivalu | festivalima |
accusative | festival | festivale |
vocative | festivale | festivali |
locative | festivalu | festivalima |
instrumental | festivalom | festivalima |
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Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival m inan (declension pattern of dub)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | festival | festivaly |
genitive | festivalu | festivalov |
dative | festivalu | festivalom |
accusative | festival | festivaly |
locative | festivale | festivaloch |
instrumental | festivalom | festivalmi |
Further reading edit
- “festival”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival m (plural festivales)
Further reading edit
- “festival”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
festival c
- a festival (event)
Declension edit
Declension of festival | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | festival | festivalen | festivaler | festivalerna |
Genitive | festivals | festivalens | festivalers | festivalernas |
Derived terms edit
References edit
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French festival.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “festival”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “festival”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı