feste

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeste/
• Hyphenation: fes‧te

feste

1. festively

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstə/
• Homophones: Feste, Veste

feste

1. strong feminine singular nominative form of fest.
2. strong feminine singular accusative form of fest.
3. strong plural nominative form of fest.
4. strong plural accusative form of fest.
5. weak masculine singular nominative form of fest.
6. weak feminine singular nominative form of fest.
7. weak feminine singular accusative form of fest.
8. weak neuter singular nominative form of fest.
9. weak neuter singular accusative form of fest.
10. mixed feminine singular nominative form of fest.
11. mixed feminine singular accusative form of fest.

feste f

1. plural of festa

fēste

1. vocative masculine singular of fēstus

• feeste

Borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa < Latin festum.

feste

1. feast

• English: feast

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

feste f (plural festes)

1. party, celebration
2. feast

• French: fête
  • → English: fête
  • → German: Fete

From Old Norse festa (sense 1), and from fest (sense 2)

feste (imperative fest, present tense fester, passive festes, simple past and past participle festa or festet, present participle festende)

1. to attach, fix (fasten), or fasten
2. to celebrate, party, have a party

• fotfeste (of noun)
• grunnfeste
• korsfeste
• stadfeste

• “feste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

feste f (oblique plural festes, nominative singular feste, nominative plural festes)

1. party; celebration
2. feast
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Et tuit li juene et li chenu
     A une feste sont venu[.]

     All all the young and the old
     Came to a feast.

• 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

feste

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of festar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of festar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of festar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of festar