festival
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: fes‧tiv‧al
Adjective
editfestival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)
- Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]
Noun
editfestival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)
- (biblical) A feast or feast day.
- 2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:
- All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.
- An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
- A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
- In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
- (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.
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Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French festival, from Latin fēstīvālis.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [fəs.tiˈβal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [fəs.tiˈval]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [fes.tiˈval]
Noun
editfestival m (plural festivals)
Derived terms
edit- festival de cinema (“film festival”)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “festival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
editEtymology
editDerived from English festival.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfestival m inan
- festival (an event or community gathering)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | festival | festivaly |
genitive | festivalu | festivalů |
dative | festivalu | festivalům |
accusative | festival | festivaly |
vocative | festivale | festivaly |
locative | festivale, festivalu | festivalech |
instrumental | festivalem | festivaly |
Further reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfestival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)
- a festival (festive event or gathering)
Derived terms
editEstonian
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfestival (genitive festivali, partitive festivali)
Declension
editDeclension of festival (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | festival | festivalid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | festivali | ||
genitive | festivalide | ||
partitive | festivali | festivale festivalisid | |
illative | festivali festivalisse |
festivalidesse festivalesse | |
inessive | festivalis | festivalides festivales | |
elative | festivalist | festivalidest festivalest | |
allative | festivalile | festivalidele festivalele | |
adessive | festivalil | festivalidel festivalel | |
ablative | festivalilt | festivalidelt festivalelt | |
translative | festivaliks | festivalideks festivaleks | |
terminative | festivalini | festivalideni | |
essive | festivalina | festivalidena | |
abessive | festivalita | festivalideta | |
comitative | festivaliga | festivalidega |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “festival”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “festival”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “festival”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- festival in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
French
editEtymology
editEnglish festival, from Old French festival.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfestival m (plural festivals)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “festival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
editNoun
editfestival (plural festival-festival)
Italian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English festival.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.sti.val/, (traditional) /fe.stiˈval/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛstival, (traditional) -al
- Hyphenation: fè‧sti‧val, (traditional) fe‧sti‧vàl
Noun
editfestival m (invariable)
- festival
- worker's festival
Synonyms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ festival in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Latin festivalis, via English festival.
Noun
editfestival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)
- a festival
References
edit- “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Latin festivalis, via English festival.
Noun
editfestival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)
- a festival
References
edit- “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editfestival m (plural festivais)
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French festival.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editfestival n (plural festivaluri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | festival | festivalul | festivaluri | festivalurile | |
genitive-dative | festival | festivalului | festivaluri | festivalurilor | |
vocative | festivalule | festivalurilor |
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editfestìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | festìvāl | festivali |
genitive | festivála | festivala |
dative | festivalu | festivalima |
accusative | festival | festivale |
vocative | festivale | festivali |
locative | festivalu | festivalima |
instrumental | festivalom | festivalima |
See also
editSlovak
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfestival m inan (declension pattern of dub)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | festival | festivaly |
genitive | festivalu | festivalov |
dative | festivalu | festivalom |
accusative | festival | festivaly |
locative | festivale | festivaloch |
instrumental | festivalom | festivalmi |
Further reading
edit- “festival”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfestival m (plural festivales)
Further reading
edit- “festival”, 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
Swedish
editNoun
editfestival c
- a festival (event)
- gå på festival
- go to a festival
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
editTurkish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French festival.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfestival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- “festival”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “festival”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
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