festivitas
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Latin
Etymology
From fēstīvus (“joyous, festive; pleasing”) + -tās, from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /feːsˈtiː.u̯i.taːs/, [feːs̠ˈt̪iːu̯ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fesˈti.vi.tas/, [fesˈt̪iːvit̪äs]
Noun
fēstīvitās f (genitive fēstīvitātis); third declension
- festivity, merriment, joy, mirth
- kind demeanour, kindness
- festival
- feast
- (of speech) humour, pleasantry, jocoseness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: festivitat
- English: festivity
- French: festivité
- Italian: festività
- Portuguese: festividade
- Romanian: festivitate
- Sicilian: fistività, fistivitati
- Spanish: festividad
References
- “festivitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “festivitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "festivitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin festivitas.
Noun
festivitas m (definite singular festivitasen)
References
- “festivitas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin festivitas.
Noun
festivitas m (definite singular festivitasen)
References
- “festivitas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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