festus

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfestus/ Rhymes: -estus Syllabification: fes‧tus === Verb === festus conditional of festi == Latin == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeːs.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛs.tus] === Adjective === fēstus (feminine fēsta, neuter fēstum); first/second-declension adjective Of or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== diēs fēstus fēstīvus fēstum profēstus ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: feast French: fête Italian: festo, festa Portuguese: festo === References === “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 “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