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festino

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See also: Festino and festinó

English

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Etymology

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From Italian festino.

Noun

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festino (plural festinos)

  1. (obsolete) A feast or entertainment.
    • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.i.8:
      “I am sure you must know about the festino that night, for it was all over the town in a moment.”

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Italian

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Noun

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festino m (plural festini)

  1. party (festive)

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From festīnus + .

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    festīnō (present infinitive festīnāre, perfect active festīnāvī, supine festīnātum); first conjugation

    1. (intransitive) to hasten, make haste, hurry; pass swiftly [first attested in Plautus][1]
      Synonyms: currō, ruō, accurrō, trepidō, prōvolō, prōripiō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō
      Antonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō
      • 1399, anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat:
        Ad mortem festinamus: / peccare desistamus.
        We hasten unto death: / let us refrain from sinning.
    2. (transitive) to accelerate, do or prepare hastily, make haste with something, hasten, hurry

    Conjugation

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    1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • English: festinate
    • Italian: festinare
    • Spanish: festinar

    References

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    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “festīnō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 216

    Further reading

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    • festīno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • festīnō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • festīno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Spanish

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    Verb

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    festino

    1. first-person singular present indicative of festinar