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.

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

v-9st
infinitive	festa
present participle	festandi
past participle a5	festur
supine	fest
number	singular			plural
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!

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

1. party (social gathering)
2. holiday (day free of work)

Synonyms

• (day free of work): día de festa, día festivo

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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/, [ˈfɛs̪t̪ä]

• 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: (or from Venetian)

  Cyrillic: фешта

  Latin: fešta

Anagrams

• sfate

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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

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

Noun

fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) party
2. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) 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.

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

Borrowed 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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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲesta/

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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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃ.tɐ/
• 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

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