feria

See also: Feria and féria

English

Etymology 1

From Ecclesiastical Latin fēria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.ɹi.ə/
  • Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a
  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

  1. A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
Further reading

Etymology 2

From Spanish feria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ̝ɾijɐ/
  • Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

  1. (slang, California) Money.
    • 2007, “Get Your Feria” (track 11, 1:36 from the start), in Lil Rob (lyrics), Uncut for the Calles Mextape Vol. Uno[1]:
      When you got a little bit of feria, the women come with no clothes
Derived terms
  • ? fetty

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish feria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feɾia/ [fe.ɾi.a]
  • Rhymes: -ia, -a
  • Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a

Noun

feria inan

  1. fair, market
    Synonym: azoka

Declension

Declension of feria (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive feria feria feriak
ergative feriak feriak feriek
dative feriari feriari feriei
genitive feriaren feriaren ferien
comitative feriarekin feriarekin feriekin
causative feriarengatik feriarengatik feriengatik
benefactive feriarentzat feriarentzat ferientzat
instrumental feriaz feriaz feriez
inessive feriatan ferian ferietan
locative feriatako feriako ferietako
allative feriatara feriara ferietara
terminative feriataraino feriaraino ferietaraino
directive feriatarantz feriarantz ferietarantz
destinative feriatarako feriarako ferietarako
ablative feriatatik feriatik ferietatik
partitive feriarik
prolative feriatzat

Further reading

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

Catalan

Verb

feria

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Galician

Verb

feria

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fēria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrja
  • Hyphenation: fè‧ria

Noun

feria f (plural ferie)

  1. (usually in the plural) holiday (British), vacation (US)
    Synonym: vacanza

Further reading

  • feria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin fēria.

Noun

feria f (plural feries)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) holiday, vacation

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin. A back-formation from fēriae, the plural form used in Classical Latin.

Pronunciation

Noun

fēria f (genitive fēriae); first declension

  1. festival, holy day
  2. holiday
  3. fair
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) weekday
  5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) feria (day without a feast)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

References

feriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Verb

feria

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfeɾja/ [ˈfe.ɾja]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɾja
  • Syllabification: fe‧ria

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fēriae.

Noun

feria f (plural ferias)

  1. fair (celebration)
  2. street market
  3. (slang) money, dinero
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

feria

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

Further reading