festum

== Latin == === Etymology === Substantive from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeːs.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛs.tum] === Noun === fēstum n (genitive fēstī); second declension a holiday, festival (Can we find and add a quotation of Lactantius to this entry?) a banquet, feast ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === Adjective === fēstum inflection of fēstus: accusative masculine singular nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “festum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “festum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "festum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “festum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.