Festus

From fēstus (“joyful, merry”).

Festus

1. A city in Missouri.
2. A male given name from Latin.

From fēstus (“joyful, merry”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeːs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛs.t̪us]

Fēstus m sg (genitive Fēstī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Sextus Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Festus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Festus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.