See also: Festa, fèsta, fësta, and fešta

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Maltese festa. Doublet of fete, fiesta, feast, and fest.

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Noun

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festa (plural festas)

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

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Basque

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish fiesta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fes̺ta/ [fes̺.t̪a]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -es̺ta, -a
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ta

Noun

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festa inan

  1. feast, festival
    Synonyms: besta, jai
  2. party, partying
    Synonym: parranda

Declension

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Declension of festa (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive festa festa festak
ergative festak festak festek
dative festari festari festei
genitive festaren festaren festen
comitative festarekin festarekin festekin
causative festarengatik festarengatik festengatik
benefactive festarentzat festarentzat festentzat
instrumental festaz festaz festez
inessive festatan festan festetan
locative festatako festako festetako
allative festatara festara festetara
terminative festataraino festaraino festetaraino
directive festatarantz festarantz festetarantz
destinative festatarako festarako festetarako
ablative festatatik festatik festetatik
partitive festarik
prolative festatzat

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Further reading

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  • festa”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • festa”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum. Compare Occitan fèsta or hèsta.

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Noun

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festa f (plural festes)

  1. celebration; party

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Esperanto

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Adjective

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

  1. festive

Fala

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese festa, from Late Latin fēsta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfesta/
  • Rhymes: -esta
  • Syllabification: fes‧ta

Noun

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festa f (plural festas)

  1. party
  2. festivity, holiday
    Synonyms: festividai, fistiviai, fistividai
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References

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse festa.

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Verb

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festa (third person singular past indicative festi, third person plural past indicative fest, supine fest)

  1. to fasten, to make fast

Usage notes

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  • festa fót (make a settlement)

Conjugation

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

1Only the past participle being declined.

Franco-Provençal

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Noun

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festa (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

  1. Alternative form of féta (party, celebration)

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Galician

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San Sebastian's festa, Aldán, Galicia

Etymology

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

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Noun

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festa f (plural festas)

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

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse festa.

Verb

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

  1. to fasten [with accusative]
  2. to determine, fix, settle [with accusative]
Conjugation
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festa – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur festa
supine sagnbót fest
present participle
festandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég festi festi festi festi
þú festir festir festir festir
hann, hún, það festir festi festi festi
plural við festum festum festum festum
þið festið festuð festið festuð
þeir, þær, þau festa festu festi festu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú fest (þú), festu
plural þið festið (þið), festiði1
1 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 festast
supine sagnbót fest
present participle
festandist (rare; see appendix)
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég festist festist festist festist
þú festist festist festist festist
hann, hún, það festist festist festist festist
plural við festumst festumst festumst festumst
þið festist festust festist festust
þeir, þær, þau festast festust festist festust
imperative boðháttur
singular þú fest (þú), festu
plural þið festist (þið), festisti1
1 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
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

  1. resoluteness, steadfastness
    Synonyms: staðfesta, stöðugleiki
Declension
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Declension of festa (sg-only feminine)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative festa festan
accusative festu festuna
dative festu festunni
genitive festu festunnar

Italian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstus (festive).

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Noun

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festa f (plural feste)

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

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  • Japanese: フェスタ
  • Maltese: festa (or from Sicilian)

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Italiot Greek

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Etymology

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From Latin festa (party, feast).

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festa f

  1. party, feast

Ladin

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Etymology

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

Noun

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festa f (plural festes)

  1. (official) holiday

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) party, feast
Declension
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First-declension noun.

Descendants
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See descendants under fēstum.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fēsta

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fēstum

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fēsta

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

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fēstā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fēstus

Ligurian

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Noun

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festa f (please provide plural)

  1. party (a celebration)
    Émmo fæto 'na festa de Dênâ.
    We had a Christmas party.

Macanese

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Etymology

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From Portuguese festa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛʃtɐ/, /ˈfɛstɐ/

Noun

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festa

  1. party, fete, gala
    Synonym: fonçám
    festa di quebrâ testabig party; solemn commemoration (literally, “party of break forehead”)
    festa di fichâ anobirthday party
  2. celebration
  3. festival
    Quelê-tánto náchi-náchi na festa
    There were many Chinese people at the festival
  4. (religion) feast
    missa festahigh mass (literally, “mass feast”)
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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sicilian festa and/or Italian festa.

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Noun

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festa f (plural festi, diminutive festin)

  1. festivity, feast
    Synonyms: festività, għors (obsolete)
  2. feast, celebration, party
  3. name day
  4. holiday, vacation
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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festa

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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

(rent farming land): Calque of Danish fæste.

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  • feste (e- and split infinitives)

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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
  2. to rent a farming land, to copyhold
    Synonym: bygsla
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Etymology 2

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

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  • feste (e- and split infinitives)

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

  1. to party

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Noun

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festa

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

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From earlier fecht (occasion) +‎ -sa (this).

Adverb

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festa

  1. now, forthwith
  2. henceforth
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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·festa

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

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Mutation of festa
radical lenition nasalization
·festa ·ḟesta ·festa
pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

Verb

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festa (past participle festr)

  1. to fasten
Conjugation
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Conjugation of festa — active (weak class 1)
infinitive festa
present participle festandi
past participle festr
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular festi festa festa festa
2nd person singular festir festir festir festir
3rd person singular festir festi festi festi
1st person plural festum festum festim festim
2nd person plural festið festuð festið festið
3rd person plural festa festu 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 subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular festumk festumk festumk festumk
2nd person singular festisk festisk festisk festisk
3rd person singular festisk festisk festisk festisk
1st person plural festumsk festumsk festimsk festimsk
2nd person plural festizk festuzk festizk festizk
3rd person plural festask festusk festisk festisk
imperative present
2nd person singular festsk, festisk
1st person plural festumsk
2nd person plural festizk
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  • Icelandic: festa
  • Faroese: festa
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: festa (to fasten)
  • Swedish: fästa
  • Danish: fæste
    • Norwegian Bokmål: feste (to fasten, to copyhold)
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: festa (to copyhold)

Etymology 2

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Related to Etymology 1 above ("fasten").

Noun

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festa f (genitive festu)

  1. bail, pledge
Declension
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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

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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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

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festa

  1. genitive plural indefinite of festr

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “festa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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

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  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ta

Noun

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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
  5. caress
    Synonyms: carícia, afago, carinho, mimo, festinha
    Fazer festas ao gato.Pet the cat.
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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festa

  1. inflection of festar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Romagnol

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin festa (feast).

Pronunciation

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  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈfɛːstɐ]

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festa f (plural fest) (Faenza)

  1. feast, festival

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfesta/ [ˈfes.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -esta
  • Syllabification: fes‧ta

Noun

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festa f (plural festas)

  1. obsolete spelling of fiesta

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From fest +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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Homophone: fästa

Verb

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

  1. to party (to celebrate at a party)
    Synonyms: partaja, kalasa

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Conjugation of festa (weak)
active passive
infinitive festa festas
supine festat festats
imperative festa
imper. plural1 festen
present past present past
indicative festar festade festas festades
ind. plural1 festa festade festas festades
subjunctive2 feste festade festes festades
present participle festande
past participle

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Ternate

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Etymology

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From Portuguese festa, from Latin fēstum.

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festa (Jawi فست)

  1. a party, celebration, feast day

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References

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh