feriado

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese feriado, from féria +‎ -ado, from Latin fēria (“holiday”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhēs- (“god, godhead, deity”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe.ɾiˈa.du/ [fe.ɾɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /feˈɾja.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe.ɾiˈa.du/ [fe.ɾɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /feˈɾja.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe.ɾiˈa.do/ [fe.ɾɪˈa.do], (faster pronunciation) /feˈɾja.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɨˈɾja.du/ [fɨˈɾja.ðu]

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a‧do

Noun

feriado m (plural feriados)

1. holiday (day declared free from work by the state or government)

Related terms

• féria
• feriadão
• ferial
• feriar
• feriável

Adjective

feriado (feminine feriada, masculine plural feriados, feminine plural feriadas, not comparable)

1. (of a day or period) which is a holiday

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈɾjado/ [feˈɾja.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: fe‧ria‧do

Noun

feriado m (plural feriados)

1. (chiefly Rioplatense, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru) ellipsis of día feriado

   Synonym: día festivo

Participle

feriado (feminine feriada, masculine plural feriados, feminine plural feriadas)

1. past participle of feriar

Further reading

• “feriado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10