festum
Latin
Etymology
Substantive from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfeːs.tum/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfes.tum/, [ˈfɛst̪um]
Noun
fēstum n (genitive fēstī); second declension
- a holiday, festival
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lactantius to this entry?)
- a banquet, feast
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fēstum | fēsta |
Genitive | fēstī | fēstōrum |
Dative | fēstō | fēstīs |
Accusative | fēstum | fēsta |
Ablative | fēstō | fēstīs |
Vocative | fēstum | fēsta |
Related terms
Descendants
- Corsican: festa
- Dalmatian: fiasta
- Esperanto: festo
- Ido: festo
- Italian: festa
- Old French: feste
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: fiesta
- Old Occitan: festa
- Old Galician-Portuguese: festa
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sicilian: festa
- Venetian: festa
- → Albanian: festë
- → Middle High German: fëst
- → Moroccan Arabic: فيشطة (fīšṭa)
- → Northern Sami: feasta
References
- “festum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “festum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- festum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- festum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum agere (of an individual)
- to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum celebrare (of a larger number)
- to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum agere (of an individual)