festum

LatinEdit

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

fēstum n (genitive fēstī); second declension

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

Corsican: festa
Dalmatian: fiasta
Italian: festa
- → Maltese: festa
- → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Venetian)
  Cyrillic: фешта
  Latin: fešta
Old French: feste
- Middle French: feste
  - French: fête
    - → English: fête
    - → German: Fete
- Norman: fête
- → Middle Dutch: fêeste
  - Dutch: feest
    - Afrikaans: fees
    - → Dutch Low Saxon: feest
    - → West Frisian: feestje (diminutive form)
  - Limburgish: fieës
  - West Flemish: fjiste
- → Middle English: feeste, feste
  - Scots: feast
  - English: feast
Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: fiesta
Old Occitan: festa
- Catalan: festa
- Occitan: fèsta
Old Portuguese: festa
- Galician: festa
- Portuguese: festa
  - Kabuverdianu: festa
  - → Malay: pesta
    - Indonesian: pesta
  - → Sranan Tongo: fesa
    - → Dutch: fissa
Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: fiesta
  - → Basque: besta
  - → English: fiesta
  - → Finnish: fiesta
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: fieste
- Ladin: festa
- Romansch: fiasta, festa
Sicilian: festa
Venetian: festa
- → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Italian)
  Cyrillic: фешта
  
  Latin: fešta
→ Albanian: festë
→ Middle High German: fëst
- Alemannic German: Fëst
- Central Franconian:
  Hunsrik: Fest
- German: Fest
  - → Danish: fest
  - → English: fest
  - → Norwegian: fest
  - → Swedish: fest
- Rhine Franconian:
  Pennsylvania German: Fescht
→ Moroccan Arabic: فيشطة‎ (fišṭa)
→ Northern Sami: feasta

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)