festa

festa (plural festas)

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

• Fates, TAFEs, fates, feast, feats, fetas

From Old Occitan festa, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

festa f (plural festes)

1. celebration; party

• festejar

• festí
• festiu

• “festa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “festa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “festa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “festa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfesta/
• Hyphenation: fest‧a
• Rhymes: -esta

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

1. festive

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛsta]

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

1. to fasten, to make fast

• festa fót - make a settlement

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

festa f (plural festas)

1. party (social gathering)
2. holiday (day free of work)

• (day free of work): día de festa, día festivo

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛsta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta

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

1. (transitive, with accusative) to fasten
2. (transitive, with accusative) to determine, to fix, to settle

• festing

festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

1. resoluteness, steadfastness

• (steadfastness): staðfesta, stöðugleiki

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstus (“festive”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁s-, zero-grade form of s-stem nouns derived from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.ta/, [ˈfɛs̪t̪ä]

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• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: fè‧sta

festa f (plural feste)

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

• → Maltese: festa
• → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Venetian)

  Cyrillic: фешта

  Latin: fešta

• sfate

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

festa f (plural festes)

1. (official) holiday

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

fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) party
2. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) feast

First-declension noun.

See descendants under fēstum.

fēsta

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

fēstā

1. ablative feminine singular of fēstus

Borrowed from Italian festa.

festa f (plural festi)

1. feast, celebration

• festet

festa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲesta/

·festa

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

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: fes‧ta

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

• Kabuverdianu: festa
• → Malay: pesta
  • Indonesian: pesta
• → Sranan Tongo: fesa
  • → Dutch: fissa

fest +‎ -a

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

1. to party (to celebrate at a party)