festinar

Borrowed from French festiner, or else from festino +‎ -ar. Compare Esperanto festeni.

• IPA^(key): /festiˈnar/

festinar (present tense festinas, past tense festinis, future tense festinos, imperative festinez, conditional festinus)

1. (intransitive) to feast
2. (intransitive) to banquet

From Latin festīnāre (“to hurry”).

• IPA^(key): /festiˈnaɾ/ [fes.t̪iˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fes‧ti‧nar

festinar (first-person singular present festino, first-person singular preterite festiné, past participle festinado)

1. to speed up
2. (transitive, Chile, Dominican Republic) to minimize, to downplay a matter or event
3. (transitive, Ecuador) synonym of malversar
4. (transitive, dated, obsolete, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “festinar”, 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