festa

See also: Festa, fèsta, and fešta

English

Noun

festa (plural festas)

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

Anagrams

• Fates, TAFEs, fates, feast, feats, fetas

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.ta/
• Rhymes: -esta

Noun

festa f (plural festes)

1. celebration; party

Derived terms

• festejar

Related terms

• festí
• festiu

Further reading

• “festa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “festa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “festa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “festa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfesta/
• Hyphenation: fest‧a
• Rhymes: -esta

Adjective

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

1. festive

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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

Conjugation of festa (group v-9st)
infinitive	festa
supine	fest
participle (a5)1	festandi	festur
	present	past
first singular	festi	festi
second singular	festir	festi
third singular	festir	festi
plural	festa	festu
	imperative
singular	fest!
plural	festið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

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Galician

San Sebastian's festa, Aldán, Galicia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

1. festival

   Synonyms: feira, festival

2. party

   Synonym: esmorga

3. holiday; festivity

   Synonyms: día de festa, día festivo, día santo

References

• “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.

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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

festa — active voice (germynd)

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)
	Forms with appended personal pronoun
	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)

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.

festur — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)

strong declension (sterk beyging)	singular (eintala)				plural (fleirtala)
	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)
	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 terms

• festing

Noun

festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

1. resoluteness, steadfastness

Declension

declension of festa

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

Synonyms

• (steadfastness): staðfesta, stöðugleiki

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Italian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.ta/

• Audio (IT)

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• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: fè‧sta

Noun

festa f (plural feste)

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

Descendants

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

Anagrams

• sfate

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Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Latin festa (“party, feast”).

Noun

festa f

1. party, feast

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Ladin

Etymology

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

Noun

festa f (plural festes)

1. (official) holiday

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Latin

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) party, feast

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

See descendants under fēstum.

Etymology 2

Noun

fēsta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fēstum

Adjective

fēsta

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

Adjective

fēstā

1. ablative feminine singular of fēstus

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Maltese

Etymology

From Italian festa.

Noun

festa f (plural festi)

1. feast, celebration

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• festet

Verb

festa

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• feste (e- and split infinitives)

Verb

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

1. to fasten, to make fast

Related terms

• fast
• fest f
• feste n

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• feste (e- and split infinitives)

Verb

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

1. to party

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• festi (non-standard since 2012)

Noun

festa

1. definite singular of fest f
2. definite plural of feste n

References

• “festa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• faste

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲesta/

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

festa

1. now, forthwith
2. henceforth

Derived terms

• feasta

Etymology 2

Verb

·festa

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

Mutation

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.

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Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

Verb

festa (past participle festr)

1. to fasten

Conjugation

Conjugation of festa — active (weak class 1)

infinitive	festa
present participle	festandi
past participle	festr
indicative	present	past
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)

infinitive	festask
present participle	festandisk
past participle	festzk
indicative	present	past
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

Descendants

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

Participle

festa

1. inflection of festr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak masculine oblique singular
   4. weak feminine nominative singular
   5. weak neuter singular

Etymology 2

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

Noun

festa f (genitive festu)

1. bail, pledge

Declension

  Declension of festa (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	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 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

festa

1. genitive plural indefinite of festr

References

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

Anagrams

• efast, stefa

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃ.tɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.tɐ/, [ˈfɛs̻.t̪ə]
• 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

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

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Swedish

Etymology

fest +‎ -a

Pronunciation

Homophone: fästa

Verb

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

1. to party (to celebrate at a party)

Conjugation

Conjugation of festa (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	festa		—
Supine	festat		—
Imperative	festa		—
Imper. plural1	festen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	festar	festade	—	—
Ind. plural1	festa	festade	—	—
Subjunctive2	feste	festade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	festande
Past participle	—
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Anagrams

• faste