feriado
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese feriado, from féria + -ado, from Latin fēria (“holiday”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhēs- (“god, godhead, deity”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /fe.ɾiˈa.du/ [fe.ɾɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /feˈɾja.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /fe.ɾiˈa.do/ [fe.ɾɪˈa.do], (faster pronunciation) /feˈɾja.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /fɨˈɾja.du/ [fɨˈɾja.ðu]
- Rhymes: -adu
- Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a‧do
Noun
feriado m (plural feriados)
- holiday (day declared free from work by the state or government)
Related terms
Adjective
feriado (feminine feriada, masculine plural feriados, feminine plural feriadas, not comparable)
- (of a day or period) which is a holiday
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feˈɾjado/ [feˈɾja.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: fe‧ria‧do
Noun
feriado m (plural feriados)
- (chiefly Rioplatense, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru) ellipsis of día feriado
- Synonym: día festivo
Participle
feriado (feminine feriada, masculine plural feriados, feminine plural feriadas)
- past participle of feriar
Further reading
- “feriado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024