fiesta

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”). Doublet of feast, fest, and fete.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪˈɛstə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɛstə/
• Rhymes: -ɛstə

fiesta (plural fiestas)

1. (in Spanish-speaking countries) A religious festival.
2. A festive occasion.

   Synonyms: celebration, party

   • 2023 January 4, Ashifa Kassam, “Six-day illegal rave sees 5,000 people descend on Spanish village”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The police arrived swiftly, deciding it would be safer to keep watch over the fiesta rather than forcefully evict thousands of revellers.

fiesta (third-person singular simple present fiestas, present participle fiestaing, simple past and past participle fiestaed)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a festive celebration; to party.

• afties, saftie, Tesfai

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

fiesta f (plural fiestes)

1. party
2. festival

From Spanish fiesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfie̯stɑ/, [ˈfie̞̯s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iestɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): fies‧ta

fiesta

1. fiesta

• “fiesta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta.

Attested since the early 1950s, originally Parisian slang.

fiesta f (plural fiestas)

1. (colloquial) fiesta, party

• définition de ☞ fiesta (avec Bob, dictionnaire d'argot)

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjɛs.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Syllabification: fies‧ta

fiesta f

1. (in Spanish-speaking countries) fiesta

• fiesta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fiesta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin fĕsta, from Latin fēsta, plural of fēstum. It is unclear why the initial f- stayed in this word instead of becoming the expected h-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjesta/ [ˈfjes.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: fies‧ta

fiesta f (plural fiestas)

1. party

   Synonyms: pachanga, farra, (Mexico) reventón, (Honduras) charrango, juerga, parranda

2. feast
   • 1909, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia Reina-Valera, Juan 7:11:

     Y buscábanle los Judíos en la fiesta, y decían: ¿Dónde está aquél?

     And the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying: Where is he?

3. feast day (of a saint)
4. holiday

   Synonym: festividad

• → Basque: besta
• → Bikol Central: piyesta
• → Cebuano: pista
• → English: fiesta
• → Finnish: fiesta
• → Tagalog: pista
• → Ye'kwana: jieta

• “fiesta”, 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

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