festa

number	singular			plural
v-9st

infinitive	festa
present participle	festandi
past participle a5	festur
supine	fest
person	first	second	third	all
indicative	eg	tú	hann/hon/tað	vit, tit, teir/tær/tey, tygum
present	festi	festir	festir	festa
past	festi	festi	festi	festu
imperative	–	tú	–	tit
present	—	fest!	—	festið!

GalicianEdit

San Sebastian's festa, Aldán, Galicia

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese festa, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

NounEdit

festa f (plural festas)

festival
Synonyms: feira, festival
party
Synonym: esmorga
holiday; festivity
Synonyms: día de festa, día festivo, día santo

ReferencesEdit

“festa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
“festa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
“festa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
“festa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“festa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛsta/
Rhymes: -ɛsta

VerbEdit

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

(transitive, with accusative) to fasten
(transitive, with accusative) to determine, to fix, to settle

ConjugationEdit

festa — active voice (germynd)

	Forms with appended personal pronoun
infinitive (nafnháttur)		að festa
supine (sagnbót)		fest
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		festandi
	indicative (framsöguháttur)			subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur)
present (nútíð)	ég festi	við festum	present (nútíð)	ég festi	við festum
	þú festir	þið festið		þú festir	þið festið
	hann, hún, það festir	þeir, þær, þau festa		hann, hún, það festi	þeir, þær, þau festi

past (þátíð)	ég festi	við festum	past (þátíð)	ég festi	við festum
	þú festir	þið festuð		þú festir	þið festuð
	hann, hún, það festi	þeir, þær, þau festu		hann, hún, það festi	þeir, þær, þau festu

imperative (boðháttur)	fest (þú)	festið (þið)
	festu	festiði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

festast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)

	Forms with appended personal pronoun
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)
	festu	festisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

festur — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)

strong declension (sterk beyging)	singular (eintala)			plural (fleirtala)
strong declension (sterk beyging)	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)
nominative (nefnifall)	festur	fest	fest	festir	festar	fest
accusative (þolfall)	festan	festa	fest	festa	festar	fest
dative (þágufall)	festum	festri	festu	festum	festum	festum
genitive (eignarfall)	fests	festrar	fests	festra	festra	festra

weak declension (veik beyging)	singular (eintala)			plural (fleirtala)
weak declension (veik beyging)	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)
nominative (nefnifall)	festi	festa	festa	festu	festu	festu
accusative (þolfall)	festa	festu	festa	festu	festu	festu
dative (þágufall)	festa	festu	festa	festu	festu	festu
genitive (eignarfall)	festa	festu	festa	festu	festu	festu

Derived termsEdit

festing

NounEdit

festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

resoluteness, steadfastness

DeclensionEdit

declension of festa

	indefinite	definite
f-w1	singular
nominative	festa	festan
accusative	festu	festuna
dative	festu	festunni
genitive	festu	festunnar

SynonymsEdit

(steadfastness): staðfesta, stöðugleiki

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.ta/, [ˈfɛs̪t̪ä]
Audio (IT)
(file)
Rhymes: -ɛsta
Hyphenation: fè‧sta

NounEdit

festa f (plural feste)

feast
holiday (civil)
(in the plural) holidays (British), vacation (US)
fair (often in combination)

DescendantsEdit

→ Maltese: festa
→ Serbo-Croatian: fešta (or from Venetian)

AnagramsEdit

sfate

LadinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

NounEdit

festa f (plural festes)

(official) holiday

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From the plural of fēstum. See main entry there for more.

NounEdit

fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

(Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) party
(Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) feast

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēsta	fēstae
Genitive	fēstae	fēstārum
Dative	fēstae	fēstīs
Accusative	fēstam	fēstās
Ablative	fēstā	fēstīs
Vocative	fēsta	fēstae

DescendantsEdit

See descendants under fēstum.

AdjectiveEdit

fēsta

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

AdjectiveEdit

fēstā

ablative feminine singular of fēstus

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian festa.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

festa f (plural festi)

feast, celebration

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

festet

VerbEdit

festa

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

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse festa, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną. Factitive of fast (“(stead)fast”).

Alternative formsEdit

feste (e- and split infinitives)

VerbEdit

festa (present tense festar or fester, past tense festa or feste, past participle festa or fest, present participle festande, imperative fest)

to fasten, to make fast

Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From fest +‎ -a, the first part being derived from Latin festum.

Alternative formsEdit

feste (e- and split infinitives)

VerbEdit

festa (present tense festar, past tense festa, past participle festa, passive infinitive festast, present participle festande, imperative fest)

to party

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative formsEdit

festi (non-standard since 2012)

NounEdit

festa

definite singular of fest f
definite plural of feste n

ReferencesEdit

“festa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

AnagramsEdit

faste

Old IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈfʲesta/

Etymology 1Edit

From earlier fecht (“occasion”) +‎ -sa (“this”)

AdverbEdit

festa

now, forthwith
henceforth

Derived termsEdit

feasta

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

·festa

second-person singular past subjunctive/conditional prototonic of ro·finnadar

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·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.

Old NorseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

VerbEdit

festa (past participle festr)

to fasten

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of festa — active (weak class 1)

indicative	present	past
infinitive	festa
present participle	festandi
past participle	festr
1st-person singular	festi	festa
2nd-person singular	festir	festir
3rd-person singular	festir	festi
1st-person plural	festum	festum
2nd-person plural	festið	festuð
3rd-person plural	festa	festu
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	festa	festa
2nd-person singular	festir	festir
3rd-person singular	festi	festi
1st-person plural	festim	festim
2nd-person plural	festið	festið
3rd-person plural	festi	festi
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	fest, festi
1st-person plural	festum
2nd-person plural	festið

Conjugation of festa — mediopassive (weak class 1)

indicative	present	past
infinitive	festask
present participle	festandisk
past participle	festzk
1st-person singular	festumk	festumk
2nd-person singular	festisk	festisk
3rd-person singular	festisk	festisk
1st-person plural	festumsk	festumsk
2nd-person plural	festizk	festuzk
3rd-person plural	festask	festusk
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	festumk	festumk
2nd-person singular	festisk	festisk
3rd-person singular	festisk	festisk
1st-person plural	festimsk	festimsk
2nd-person plural	festizk	festizk
3rd-person plural	festisk	festisk
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	festsk, festisk
1st-person plural	festumsk
2nd-person plural	festizk

DescendantsEdit

Icelandic: festa
Faroese: festa
Norwegian Nynorsk: festa, feste
Norwegian Bokmål: feste
Swedish: fästa
Danish: fæste

ParticipleEdit

festa

inflection of festr:

Etymology 2Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

festa f (genitive festu)

bail, pledge

DeclensionEdit

Declension of festa (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
feminine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	festa	festan	festur	festurnar
accusative	festu	festuna	festur	festurnar
dative	festu	festunni	festum	festunum
genitive	festu	festunnar	festna	festnanna

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the main entry.

NounEdit

festa

genitive plural indefinite of festr

ReferencesEdit

festa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

AnagramsEdit

efast, stefa

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Portuguese festa, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

PronunciationEdit

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃ.tɐ/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.tɐ/
Hyphenation: fes‧ta

NounEdit

festa f (plural festas)

party
Vamos começar a festa.
Let's get the party started.

A festa acabou.
The party's over.
celebration
festival
(religion) feast

DescendantsEdit

Kabuverdianu: festa
→ Malay: pesta
- Indonesian: pesta
→ Sranan Tongo: fesa
- → Dutch: fissa

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

fest +‎ -a

VerbEdit

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

to party (to celebrate at a party)

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of festa (weak)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	festa	—
Present tense	festar	—
Past tense	festade	—
Supine	festat	—
Imperative	festa	—
Present participle	festande
Past participle	—

AnagramsEdit

faste

festa

EnglishEdit

NounEdit

AnagramsEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

Derived termsEdit

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Further readingEdit

EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

FaroeseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

Usage notesEdit

ConjugationEdit

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ReferencesEdit

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

ConjugationEdit

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

DeclensionEdit

SynonymsEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

DescendantsEdit

AnagramsEdit

LadinEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

AdjectiveEdit

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

ReferencesEdit

AnagramsEdit

Old IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

AdverbEdit

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

MutationEdit

Old NorseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

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DescendantsEdit