festus

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festus

1. conditional of festi

From Proto-Italic *fēstos, from earlier *θēstos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁s-tos, from *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity; sacred place”). See also fānum and fēriae.

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

fēstus (feminine fēsta, neuter fēstum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry.

First/second-declension adjective.

• diēs fēstus
• fēstīvus
• fēstum
• profēstus

• → English: feast
• French: fête
• Italian: festo, festa
• Portuguese: festo

• “fēstus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “festus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ¹ fēstus¹ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “festus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “festus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fēriae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 212-213