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5-letter words (5 found)

FATES,FEAST,FEATS,FESTA,FETAS,

4-letter words (21 found)

ATES,EAST,EATS,EFTS,ETAS,FAST,FATE,FATS,FEAT,FEST,FETA,FETS,SAFE,SAFT,SATE,SEAT,SETA,TAES,TASE,TEAS,TEFS,

3-letter words (23 found)

AFT,ATE,ATS,EAS,EAT,EFS,EFT,EST,ETA,FAE,FAS,FAT,FES,FET,SAE,SAT,SEA,SET,TAE,TAS,TEA,TEF,TES,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AS,AT,EA,EF,ES,ET,FA,FE,ST,TA,TE,

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Definitions and meaning of festa

festa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Maltese festa. Doublet of fete, fiesta, feast, and fest.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛstə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛstə

Noun

festa (plural festas)

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

Anagrams

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

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fes̺ta/ [fes̺.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -es̺ta, -a
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ta

Noun

festa inan

  1. feast, festival
    Synonyms: besta, jai
  2. party, partying
    Synonym: parranda

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

festa f (plural festes)

  1. celebration; party

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “festa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “festa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “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.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

  1. festive

Fala

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

  1. party
  2. festivity, holiday
    Synonyms: festividai, fistiviai, fistividai

Related terms

References

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

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse festa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛsta]

Verb

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

  1. to fasten, to make fast

Usage notes

  • festa fót (“make a settlement”)

Conjugation

Franco-Provençal

Noun

festa (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

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

References

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

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛs̺tɐ]

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

  1. festival
    Synonyms: feira, festival
  2. party
    Synonym: esmorga
  3. holiday; festivity
    Synonyms: día de festa, día festivo, día santo

References

  • 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • 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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛsta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse festa.

Verb

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

  1. to fasten [with accusative]
  2. to determine, fix, settle [with accusative]
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • festing

Etymology 2

Noun

festa f (genitive singular festu, no plural)

  1. resoluteness, steadfastness
    Synonyms: staðfesta, stöðugleiki
Declension

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛs.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsta
  • Hyphenation: fè‧sta

Noun

festa f (plural feste)

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

Descendants

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

Anagrams

  • sfate

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Latin festa (“party, feast”).

Noun

festa f

  1. party, feast

Ladin

Etymology

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

Noun

festa f (plural festes)

  1. (official) holiday

Latin

Pronunciation

  • fēsta: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeːs.ta]
  • fēsta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛs.t̪a]
  • fēstā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeːs.taː]
  • fēstā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛs.t̪a]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fēsta f (genitive fēstae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) party, feast
Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

See descendants under fēstum.

Etymology 2

Noun

fēsta

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fēstum

Adjective

fēsta

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

Adjective

fēstā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fēstus

Ligurian

Noun

festa f (please provide plural)

  1. party (a celebration)
    Émmo fæto 'na festa de Dênâ.
    We had a Christmas party.

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese festa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛʃtɐ/, /ˈfɛstɐ/

Noun

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

Related terms

  • bô-festa

References

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

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian festa and/or Italian festa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛːs.ta/

Noun

festa f (plural festi, diminutive festin)

  1. festivity, feast
    Synonyms: festività, għors (obsolete)
  2. feast, celebration, party
  3. name day
  4. holiday, vacation

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • festet

Verb

festa

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

(rent farming land): Calque of Danish fæste.

Alternative forms

  • feste (e- and split infinitives)

Verb

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
Related terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • feste (e- and split infinitives)

Verb

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

  1. to party

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • festi (non-standard since 2012)

Noun

festa

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

References

  • “festa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • faste

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɸʲesta]

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

festa

  1. now, forthwith
  2. henceforth
Derived terms
  • feasta

Etymology 2

Verb

·festa

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

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

Verb

festa (past participle festr)

  1. to fasten
Conjugation
Descendants

Etymology 2

Related to Etymology 1 above ("fasten").

Noun

festa f (genitive festu)

  1. bail, pledge
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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

Noun

festa

  1. genitive plural indefinite of festr

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “festa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Anagrams

  • efast, stefa

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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
    Synonyms: carícia, afago, carinho, mimo, festinha
    Fazer festas ao gato. ― Pet the cat.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Kabuverdianu: festa
  • Macanese: festa
  • → Bengali: ফেস্তা (phesta)
  • → Konkani: फेस्त (phesta)
  • → Malay: pesta
    • Indonesian: pesta
  • → Sranan Tongo: fesa
    • → Dutch: fissa
  • → Tetum: festa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

festa

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

Further reading

  • “festa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
  • “festa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Romagnol

Alternative forms

  • fësta

Etymology

Inherited from Latin festa (“feast”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

festa f (plural fest) (Faenza)

  1. feast, festival

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

festa f (plural festas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of fiesta.

Further reading

  • “festa”, 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

Swedish

Etymology

From fest +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Homophone: fästa

Verb

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

  1. to party (to celebrate at a party)
    Synonyms: partaja, kalasa

Conjugation

References

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

Anagrams

  • faste

Ternate

Etymology

From Portuguese festa, from Latin fēstum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfes.ta]

Noun

festa (Jawi فست)

  1. a party, celebration, feast day

Derived terms

  • festa sara toca (“the candle lighting celebration”)

Alternative forms

  • pesta

References

  • 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

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