fettisdag

Swedish

Etymology

fet (“fat”) +‎ tisdag (“Tuesday”). Compare English Fat Tuesday, French mardi gras.

Noun

fettisdag c

1. (usually in the definite "fettisdagen") Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Lent)

Usage notes

Sometimes jokingly analyzed and pronounced as fettis + dagen (roughly "the fatso day;" see fett (“fat”) and -is), due to semla traditionally being eaten on Shrove Tuesday in Sweden.

Declension

Declension of fettisdag
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fettisdag	fettisdagen	fettisdagar	fettisdagarna
Genitive	fettisdags	fettisdagens	fettisdagars	fettisdagarnas

Synonyms

• fastlagstisdag

Derived terms

• fettisdagsbulle

See also

• semla

References

• fettisdag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fettisdag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fettisdag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)