festiu

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fēstīvus, equivalent to festa +‎ -iu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [fəsˈtiw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [fesˈtiw]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -iw

Adjective

festiu (feminine festiva, masculine plural festius, feminine plural festives)

1. festive
2. cheerful

Derived terms

• festivament

Related terms

• festa
• festí
• festivitat

Noun

festiu m (plural festius)

1. holiday

Further reading

• “festiu”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “festiu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “festiu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “festiu”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)