día feriado

Spanish

Etymology

From día and feria +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdia feˈɾjado/ [ˌd̪i.a feˈɾja.ð̞o]
• Syllabification: dí‧a fe‧ria‧do

Noun

día feriado m (plural días feriados)

1. (Latin America) holiday (day on which a festival, etc, is traditionally observed)

   Synonyms: feriado, día festivo

Usage notes

The Southern Cone, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru tend to shorten it to just feriado though this depends regionally.

Further reading

• “día feriado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10