festum

Latin

Etymology

Substantive from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.tum/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.tum/, [ˈfɛst̪um]

Noun

fēstum n (genitive fēstī); second declension

1. a holiday, festival

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2. a banquet, feast

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	fēstum	fēsta
genitive	fēstī	fēstōrum
dative	fēstō	fēstīs
accusative	fēstum	fēsta
ablative	fēstō	fēstīs
vocative	fēstum	fēsta

Related terms

• fēstīvālis
• fēstīvē
• fēstīvitās
• fēstīviter
• fēstīvum
• fēstīvus
• fēstum fēstōrum
• fēstus

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • fiasta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: festa
  • Italian: festa
  • Neapolitan: festa
  • Sicilian: festa
    • → Maltese: festa
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: festa
  • Friulian: fieste
  • Ladin: festa
  • Ligurian: fèsta
  • Lombard: fèsta
  • Piedmontese: festa
  • Romagnol: festa
  • Romansch: fiasta, festa
  • Venetan: festa
    • → Serbo-Croatian: fešta
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: féta
  • Old French: feste
    • Middle French: feste
      • French: fête (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: fête
    • → Middle Dutch: fêeste (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle English: feeste (see there for further descendants)
  • Walloon: fiesse
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: festa
  • Occitan: fèsta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: fiesta
  • Asturian: fiesta
  • Extremaduran: fiesta
  • Leonese: festa
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: festa
    • Fala: festa
    • Galician: festa
    • Portuguese: festa (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: fiesta
    • Spanish: fiesta (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: festa
• Vulgar Latin: *festizāre (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: festë
• → Basque: besta
• → Breton: fest
• → Middle High German: fëst
  • → Alemannic German: Fëst
    • → German: Fest (see there for further descendants)
  • → Hunsrik: Fest
  • → Mòcheno: fest
  • → Pennsylvania German: Fescht
• → Moroccan Arabic: فيشطة (fīšṭa)
• → Northern Sami: feasta
• → Irish: féasta

References

• “festum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “festum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• festum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• festum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum agere (of an individual)
    
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum celebrare (of a larger number)