festa

Borrowed from Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Maltese festa.

festa (plural festas)

1. A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.

• fetas, TAFEs, Feast, feats, Fates, feast, fates, atefs

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta.

• IPA^(key): /fes̺ta/ [fes̺.t̪a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -es̺ta
• Hyphenation: fes‧ta

festa inan

1. feast, festival

   Synonyms: besta, jai

2. party, partying

   Synonym: parranda

• “festa”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “festa”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum. Compare Occitan fèsta or hèsta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfes.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfes.ta]
• Rhymes: -esta

festa f (plural festes)

1. celebration; party

• “festa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “festa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “festa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “festa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfesta]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Hyphenation: fes‧ta

festa (accusative singular festan, plural festaj, accusative plural festajn)

1. festive

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese festa, from Late Latin fēsta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfesta/
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: fes‧ta

festa f (plural festas)

1. party
2. festivity, holiday

   Synonyms: festividai, fistiviai, fistividai

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Old Norse festa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛsta]

festa (third person singular past indicative festi, third person plural past indicative fest, supine fest)

1. to fasten, to make fast

• festa fót (“make a settlement”)

Conjugation of festa (group v-9st)
infinitive	festa
supine	fest
participle (a5)1	festandi	festur
	present	past
first singular	festi	festi
second singular	festir	festi
third singular	festir	festi
plural	festa	festu
	imperative
singular	fest!
plural	festið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

festa (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

1. Alternative form of féta (“party, celebration”)

• festa in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fĕsta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 482

From Old Galician-Portuguese festa, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

festa f (plural festas)

1. festival

   Synonyms: feira, festival

2. party

   Synonym: esmorga

3. holiday; festivity

   Synonyms: día de festa, día festivo, día santo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “festa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “festa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “festa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “festa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “festa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Norse festa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛsta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta

festa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative festi, supine fest)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to fasten
2. (transitive, with accusative) to determine, fix, settle

• festing

festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

1. resoluteness, steadfastness

• (steadfastness): staðfesta, stöðugleiki

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstus (“festive”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.sta/

• Audio (IT):

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• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: fè‧sta

festa f (plural feste)

1. feast
2. holiday (civil)
3. (in the plural) holidays (British), vacation (US)
4. fair (often in combination)

• → Japanese: フェスタ
• → Maltese: festa (or from Sicilian)

• sfate

From Latin festa (“party, feast”).

festa f

1. party, feast

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

festa f (plural festes)

1. (official) holiday

• fēsta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.ta/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪ä]
• fēsta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.ta/, [ˈfɛst̪ä]
• fēstā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.taː/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪äː]
• fēstā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.ta/, [ˈfɛst̪ä]

From the plural of fēstum. See main entry there for more.

fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) party, feast

First-declension noun.

See descendants under fēstum.

fēsta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fēstum

fēsta

1. inflection of fēstus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

fēstā

1. ablative feminine singular of fēstus

festa f (please provide plural)

1. party (a celebration)

   Émmo fæto 'na festa de Dênâ.

   We had a Christmas party.

From Portuguese festa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃtɐ/, /ˈfɛstɐ/

festa

1. party, fete, gala

   Synonym: fonçám

   festa di quebrâ testa ― big party; solemn commemoration (literally, “party of break forehead”)

   festa di fichâ ano ― birthday party

2. celebration
3. festival

   Quelê-tánto náchi-náchi na festa

   There were many Chinese people at the festival

4. (religion) feast

   missa festa ― high mass (literally, “mass feast”)

• bô-festa

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Borrowed from Sicilian festa and/or Italian festa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːs.ta/

festa f (plural festi, diminutive festin)

1. festivity, feast

   Synonym: festività

2. feast, celebration, party
3. name day
4. holiday, vacation

• festet

festa

1. inflection of feste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Old Norse festa, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną. Factitive of fast (“(stead)fast”).

(rent farming land): Calque of Danish fæste.

• feste (e- and split infinitives)

festa (present tense festar or fester, past tense festa or feste, past participle festa or fest, present participle festande, imperative fest)

1. to fasten, to make fast
2. to rent a farming land, to copyhold

   Synonym: bygsla

From fest +‎ -a, the first part being derived from Latin festum.

• feste (e- and split infinitives)

festa (present tense festar, past tense festa, past participle festa, passive infinitive festast, present participle festande, imperative festa/fest)

1. to party

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• festi (non-standard since 2012)

festa

1. definite singular of fest f
2. definite plural of feste n

• “festa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• faste

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲesta]

From earlier fecht (“occasion”) +‎ -sa (“this”).

festa

1. now, forthwith
2. henceforth

• feasta

·festa

1. second-person singular past subjunctive/conditional prototonic of ro·finnadar

From Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

festa (past participle festr)

1. to fasten

Related to Etymology 1 above ("fasten").

festa f (genitive festu)

1. bail, pledge

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

festa

1. inflection of festr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak masculine oblique singular
   4. weak feminine nominative singular
   5. weak neuter singular

festa

1. genitive plural indefinite of festr

• “festa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• efast, stefa

From Old Galician-Portuguese festa, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: fes‧ta

festa f (plural festas)

1. party

   Vamos começar a festa. ― Let's get the party started.

   A festa acabou. ― The party's over.

2. celebration
3. festival
4. (religion) feast
5. caress

• Kabuverdianu: festa
• Macanese: festa
• → Konkani: फेस्त (phesta)
• → Malay: pesta
  • Indonesian: pesta
• → Sranan Tongo: fesa
  • → Dutch: fissa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

festa

1. inflection of festar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• fësta

Inherited from Latin festa (“feast”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈfɛːstɐ]

festa f (plural fest) (Faenza)

1. feast, festival

• IPA^(key): /ˈfesta/ [ˈfes.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: fes‧ta

festa f (plural festas)

1. Obsolete spelling of fiesta.

• “festa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From fest +‎ -a.

Homophone: fästa

festa (present festar, preterite festade, supine festat, imperative festa)

1. to party (to celebrate at a party)

   Synonyms: partaja, kalasa

• festa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• festa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• faste

From Portuguese festa, from Latin fēstum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfes.ta]

festa (Jawi فست)

1. a party, celebration, feast day

   festa sara toca ― the candle lighting celebration

• pesta

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh