festum

Latin

Etymology

Substantive from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.tum/, [ˈfeːs̠.t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.tum/, [ˈfɛs.t̪um]

Noun

fēstum n (genitive fēstī); second declension

1. a holiday, festival
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Lactantius to this entry?)
2. a banquet, feast

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēstum	fēsta
Genitive	fēstī	fēstōrum
Dative	fēstō	fēstīs
Accusative	fēstum	fēsta
Ablative	fēstō	fēstīs
Vocative	fēstum	fēsta

Related terms

• fēstīvālis
• fēstīvē
• fēstīvitās
• fēstīviter
• fēstīvum
• fēstīvus
• fēstum fēstōrum
• fēstus

 

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: féta
• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: festa
  • Ligurian: fèsta
  • Lombard: fèsta
  • Piedmontese: festa
  • Romagnol: festa
  • Venetian: festa
    • → Serbo-Croatian: fešta (or from Italian)
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: festa
  • Dalmatian: fiasta
  • Italian: festa
    • → Maltese: festa
    • → Serbo-Croatian: fešta (or from Venetian)
  • Neapolitan: festa
  • Sicilian: festa
• Old French: feste
  • Middle French: feste
    • French: fête
      • → English: fête
      • → German: Fete
      • → Polish: feta
  • Norman: fête
  • Middle Dutch: fêeste (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: feeste, feste
    • English: feast
    • Scots: feast
• Old Occitan: festa
  • Catalan: festa
  • Occitan: fèsta
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: fieste
  • Ladin: festa
  • Romansch: fiasta, festa
• Sardinian: festa, festha
• Walloon: fiesse
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: fiesta
  • Asturian: fiesta
  • Extremaduran: fiesta
  • Leonese: festa
  • Old Portuguese: festa
    • Galician: festa
    • Portuguese: festa (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: fiesta
    • Spanish: fiesta (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings

• Albanian: festë
• Basque: besta
• Breton: fest
• Middle High German: fëst
  • Alemannic German: Fëst
  • German: Fest (see there for further descendants)
  • Hunsrik: Fest
  • Mòcheno: fest
  • Pennsylvania German: Fescht
• Moroccan Arabic: فيشطة‎ (fīšṭa)
• Northern Sami: feasta

References

• festum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• festum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• festum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• festum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum agere (of an individual)
    
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum celebrare (of a larger number)