ferial

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹɪəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪəl

Adjective

ferial (not comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
2. Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎^[1], London: Chatto & Windus, page 289:

     [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing their ferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 136:

     In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.

Translations

pertaining to an ordinary weekday

• Middle English: ferial
• Spanish: ferial

festive — see festive

Noun

ferial (plural ferials)

1. (ecclesiastical) A feria.

Anagrams

• A-lifer, failer, farlie, fraile

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [feˈʁi̯aːl]
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧al

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

ferial (strong nominative masculine singular ferialer, not comparable)

1. (Austria, dated, relational) holiday

Declension

Positive forms of ferial (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist ferial	sie ist ferial	es ist ferial	sie sind ferial
strong declension (without article)	nominative	ferialer	feriale	feriales	feriale
	genitive	ferialen	ferialer	ferialen	ferialer
	dative	ferialem	ferialer	ferialem	ferialen
	accusative	ferialen	feriale	feriales	feriale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der feriale	die feriale	das feriale	die ferialen
	genitive	des ferialen	der ferialen	des ferialen	der ferialen
	dative	dem ferialen	der ferialen	dem ferialen	den ferialen
	accusative	den ferialen	die feriale	das feriale	die ferialen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein ferialer	eine feriale	ein feriales	(keine) ferialen
	genitive	eines ferialen	einer ferialen	eines ferialen	(keiner) ferialen
	dative	einem ferialen	einer ferialen	einem ferialen	(keinen) ferialen
	accusative	einen ferialen	eine feriale	ein feriales	(keine) ferialen

Derived terms

• Ferialjob
• Ferialpraktikum
• Ferialpraxis

Further reading

• “ferial” in Duden online

Middle English

Alternative forms

• feriall, feryal, feryall, feryalle, fferyel

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin fēriālis; equivalent to ferie (“weekday”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɛːriˈaːl/, /ˈfɛːrial/

Adjective

ferial

1. (chiefly Late Middle English) ferial (pertaining to an ordinary day)

Descendants

• English: ferial

References

• “fēriāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Adjective

ferial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular feriale)

1. ferial (pertaining to a holiday)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈɾjal/ [feˈɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fe‧rial

Adjective

ferial m or f (masculine and feminine plural feriales)

1. ferial, on a weekday

Further reading

• “ferial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10