feste

See also: Feste

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeste/
• Hyphenation: fes‧te

Adverb

feste

1. festively

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstə/
• Homophones: Feste, Veste

Adjective

feste

1. inflection of fest:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Noun

feste f

1. plural of festa

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) fēste

1. vocative masculine singular of fēstus

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• feeste

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa < Latin festum.

Noun

feste

1. feast

Descendants

• English: feast

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Noun

feste f (plural festes)

1. party, celebration
2. feast

Descendants

• French: fête
  • → English: fête
  • → German: Fete
  • → Polish: feta

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse festa (sense 1), and from fest (sense 2)

Verb

feste (imperative fest, present tense fester, passive festes, simple past and past participle festa or festet, present participle festende)

1. to attach, fix (fasten), or fasten
2. to celebrate, party, have a party

Derived terms

• fotfeste (of noun)
• grunnfeste
• korsfeste
• stadfeste

References

• “feste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Noun

feste oblique singular, f (oblique plural festes, nominative singular feste, nominative plural festes)

1. party; celebration
2. feast
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Et tuit li juene et li chenu
     A une feste sont venu[.]

     All all the young and the old
     Came to a feast.

Descendants

• Middle French: feste
  • French: fête
    • → English: fête
    • → German: Fete
    • → Polish: feta
• Norman: fête
• → Middle Dutch: fêeste
  • Dutch: feest
    • Afrikaans: fees
    • Negerhollands: feesa
    • → Dutch Low Saxon: feest
    • → Javanese: fés
    • → Sranan Tongo: fesa
      • → Caribbean Javanese: fés
    • → West Frisian: feestje (diminutive form)
  • Limburgish: fieës
  • West Flemish: fjiste
• → Middle English: feeste, feste
  • English: feast
  • Scots: feast
  • → Welsh: ffest

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Portuguese

Verb

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