fiesta

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”). Doublet of feast, fest, and fete.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪˈɛstə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɛstə/
• Rhymes: -ɛstə

fiesta (plural fiestas)

1. (in Spanish-speaking countries) A religious festival.
2. A festive occasion.

   Synonyms: celebration, party

   • 2023 January 4, Ashifa Kassam, “Six-day illegal rave sees 5,000 people descend on Spanish village”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The police arrived swiftly, deciding it would be safer to keep watch over the fiesta rather than forcefully evict thousands of revellers.

fiesta (third-person singular simple present fiestas, present participle fiestaing, simple past and past participle fiestaed)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a festive celebration; to party.

• afties, saftie, Tesfai

Inherited from Late Latin fēsta, from Latin fēsta, plural of fēstum.

fiesta f (plural fiestes)

1. party
2. festival

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfie̯stɑ/, [ˈfie̞̯s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iestɑ
• Syllabification^(key): fies‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): fies‧ta

fiesta

1. fiesta

• “fiesta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta. Originally Parisian slang. Doublet of fête.

fiesta f (plural fiestas)

1. (colloquial) fiesta; party [early 1950s]

• définition de ☞ fiesta (avec Bob, dictionnaire d'argot)

• fyesta

Inherited from Old Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin fĕsta, from Latin fēsta, plural of fēstum. It is unclear why the initial f- stayed in this word instead of becoming the expected h-.

fiesta f (Hebrew spelling פ׳ייסטה)^[1]

1. party (gathering of guests for entertainment, fun and socializing)
   • 2001, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[3], volume 22, page 45:

     Si keresh ver ermoza fiesta esta noche vos envito a una maraviyoza kazika.

     If you lot want to see a beautiful party tonight, I am sending you to a wonderful little house.

2. festival (event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals)
   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[4], numbers 11–34, page 105:

     La fiesta de Soucoth que el Pentatioco (cinco livros de la ley) llama Hag Aasif, la fiesta de la recolta, es la mas importante y la mas alegre por un pueblo esencialmente agricultor segun era el pueblo de Israel.

     The festival of Sukkot that the Pentateuch calls Hag Aasif, the harvest festival, is the most important and the most joyful for an essentially agricultural people as were the people of Israel.

   • 1997, Salamon Bicerano, Relatos en lingua judeo-espanyola‎^[5], Gözlem Gazetecilik Basın ve Yayın A.Ş., page 308:

     Roş Aşana es una fiesta de famiya!

     Rosh Hashana is a family festival!

3. holiday (day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed)
   • 2017 June 12, Amor Ayala, Los sefardíes de Bulgaria‎^[6], De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 372:

     En noembri 1918, a la okazyon de la desizyon de las grandes potensyas por el kriamiento de un estado djudyo en Palestina, el Gran Rabinato de akordo kon el governo bulgaro dyo instruksyones a las komunidades por fiestar en el 29 noembri, primer dia de hanuka, lo mas solenelmente esta fiesta.

     In November 1918, on the occasion of a decision by the great powers for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Grand Rabinate, in agreement with the Bulgarian government, gave instructions to the communities to celebrate on November 29, the first day of Chanukkah, this holiday with much festivity.

4. (figurative) joy (happiness)

   Synonym: alegria

   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[7], volumes 26–28, page 4:

     Ma mizmo en estos momentos de fiesta i alegria, no podimos evitar de apuntar ke ainda semos enfrentados por graves peligros, entre otras en el kampo finansiario tambien, komo konsekuensa de las restriksiones de estos ultimos anyos en los budjetos de las institusiones kulturales en Israel i de la difikultad kada vez mas grande, de obtener el ayudo del kual tenemos menester.

     Yet even in these moments of joy and happiness, we could not avoid emphasizing that we remained confronted by grave dangers, among others in the financial camp as well, as a consequence of the restrictions of these last years in Israel's institutions' culturals budgets and from the worse difficulty every time of getting help for what we need.

• festa

Inherited from Late Latin fĕsta, from Latin fēsta, plural of fēstum. It is unclear why the initial f- stayed in this word instead of becoming the expected h-.

fiesta f (plural fiestas)

1. party (celebration)
   • 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 76va:

     euencjeron & deſtruxieron la ueſt & uinjeron loſ macabeuus con todo el pueblo al tenple de iherusalem e con grant alegria. efizieron grant fieſta.

     And they vanquished and destroyed the beast and the Maccabees along with all the people came to the Temple of Jerusalem and, with much joy, had a great party.

• Ladino: fiesta, fyesta, פ׳ייסטה
• Spanish: fiesta

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “fiesta”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 259

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjɛs.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Syllabification: fies‧ta

fiesta f

1. (in Spanish-speaking countries) fiesta

• fiesta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fiesta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin fĕsta, from Latin fēsta, plural of fēstum. It is unclear why the initial f- stayed in this word instead of becoming the expected h-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjesta/ [ˈfjes.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: fies‧ta

fiesta f (plural fiestas)

1. party

   Synonyms: pachanga, farra, (Mexico) reventón, (Honduras) charrango, juerga, parranda

2. feast
   • 1909, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia Reina-Valera, Juan 7:11:

     Y buscábanle los Judíos en la fiesta, y decían: ¿Dónde está aquél?

     And the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying: Where is he?

3. feast day (of a saint)
4. holiday

   Synonym: festividad

• → Basque: besta
• → Bikol Central: piyesta
• → Cebuano: pista
• → English: fiesta
• → Finnish: fiesta
• → Tagalog: pista
• → Ye'kwana: jieta

• “fiesta”, 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

• fiaste