festus

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See also: Festus

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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festus

  1. conditional of festi

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *fēstos, from earlier *θēstos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁s-tos, from *dʰéh₁s (god, godhead, deity; sacred place). See also fānum and fēriae.

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Adjective

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fēstus (feminine fēsta, neuter fēstum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: feast
  • French: fête
  • Italian: festo, festa
  • Portuguese: festo

References

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  • fēstus1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • festus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • 1 fēstus1 in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • festus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • festus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fēriae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 212-213