fasti

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fāstī.

Noun

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fasti pl (plural only)

  1. The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
  2. Records or registers of important events.

Coordinate terms

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fasti”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From English fast, German fasten, Yiddish פֿאַסטן (fastn), all from Proto-Germanic *fastāną.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfasti]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -asti
  • Hyphenation: fas‧ti

Verb

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fasti (present fastas, past fastis, future fastos, conditional fastus, volitive fastu)

  1. (intransitive) to fast

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Ido: fastar

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.sti/
  • Rhymes: -asti
  • Hyphenation: fà‧sti

Noun

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fasti m

  1. plural of fasto

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fāstī

  1. inflection of fāstus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

References

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  • fasti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fasti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the calender (list of fasts and festivals): fasti

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English fast or Dutch vast.

Adjective

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fasti

  1. stuck, tight, secured
  2. fixed, unwavering