festum

Latin

Etymology

Substantive from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeːs.tũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs.tum]

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).

	singular	plural
nominative	fēstum	fēsta
genitive	fēstī	fēstōrum
dative	fēstō	fēstīs
accusative	fēstum	fēsta
ablative	fēstō	fēstīs
vocative	fēstum	fēsta

Adjective

fēstum

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

Related terms

Descendants

Descendants

Dalmatian:
- fiasta
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: festa
- Italian: festa
- Neapolitan: festa
- Sicilian: festa
  - → Maltese: festa
Padanian:
- Emilian: festa
- Friulian: fieste
- Ladin: festa
- Ligurian: fèsta
- Lombard: fèsta
- Piedmontese: festa
- Romagnol: festa
- Romansh: fiasta, festa
- Venetan: festa
  - → Serbo-Croatian: fešta
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: féta
- Old French: feste
  - Middle French: feste
    - French: fête (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: fête
  - → Middle Dutch: fêeste (see there for further descendants)
  - → Middle English: feeste (see there for further descendants)
- Walloon: fiesse
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: festa
- Occitan: fèsta
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: fiesta
- Asturian: fiesta
- Extremaduran: fiesta
- Leonese: festa
- Old Galician-Portuguese: festa
  - Fala: festa
  - Galician: festa
  - Portuguese: festa (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: fiesta
  - Spanish: fiesta (see there for further descendants)
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: festa
Vulgar Latin: *festizāre (see there for further descendants)
→ Albanian: festë
→ Basque: besta
→ Breton: fest
→ Middle High German: fëst
- → Alemannic German: Fëst
  - → German: Fest (see there for further descendants)
- → Hunsrik: Fest
- → Mòcheno: fest
- → Pennsylvania German: Fescht
→ Northern Sami: feasta
→ Irish: féasta

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, 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)