festus

See also: Festus

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Pronunciation

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Verb

festus

1. conditional of festi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fēstos, from earlier *θēstos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁s-tos, from *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity; sacred place”). See also fānum and fēriae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.tus/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.tus/, [ˈfɛst̪us]

Adjective

fēstus (feminine fēsta, neuter fēstum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fēstus	fēsta	fēstum		fēstī	fēstae	fēsta
genitive	fēstī	fēstae	fēstī		fēstōrum	fēstārum	fēstōrum
dative	fēstō	fēstae	fēstō		fēstīs
accusative	fēstum	fēstam	fēstum		fēstōs	fēstās	fēsta
ablative	fēstō	fēstā	fēstō		fēstīs
vocative	fēste	fēsta	fēstum		fēstī	fēstae	fēsta

Derived terms

• diēs fēstus
• fēstīvus
• fēstum
• profēstus

Related terms

• fēstīvālis
• fēstīvē
• fēstīvitās
• fēstīviter
• fēstīvum

Descendants

• → English: feast
• French: fête
• Italian: festo, festa
• Portuguese: festo

References

• “fēstus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “festus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ¹ fēstus¹ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “festus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “festus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fēriae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 212-213