ferio

From Italian feria.

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• IPA^(key): /feˈrio/
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧o
• Rhymes: -io

ferio (accusative singular ferion, plural ferioj, accusative plural feriojn)

1. day off, holiday (day of vacation)

   banka ferio

   bank holiday

2. (in the plural) vacation, holidays

   someraj ferioj

   summer vacation

• feria (“of or related to days off”)
• ferii (“to vacation”)

• festotago (“holiday (day a festival is observed)”)

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce, strike”), perhaps with root-final laryngeal dropped in a prevocalic position. O-grade reflex is attested in forō. Cognate with Albanian bie (“to fall”), Old English ġebered (“crushed, kneaded”), English berry (“to beat, thrash”), Old Armenian բերան (beran). More at berry.

Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to scrape, to cut”). Compare Middle Irish berna, Old High German berjan, Middle High German berjen, Old English bered, Ancient Greek φάρω (phárō)/*Ancient Greek φαράω (pharáō),[1] Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬲𐬌𐬠𐬁𐬭𐬀‎ (tižibāra).

feriō (present infinitive ferīre, perfect active ferīvī, supine ferītum); fourth conjugation

1. I hit, I strike, I smite, I beat, I knock.

   Feriri a serpente.

   To be stung by a snake.

2. I cut, I thrust.
3. (with accusative) I kill by striking, I slay, I give a deathblow

   Aliquem securi ferire.

   To behead someone with an ax.

4. (money) I strike, I stamp, I coin.

   Asses sextantario pondere ferire.

   To strike asses only the sixth part of a pound.

   • moneyer; in the Roman Republic, the abbreviation III. VIR. AAAFF. or even III. VIR. A.P.F. (tresviri ad pecuniam feriundum) was written on the coins, but it stood for:

     Tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo.

     Three men for striking and casting bronze, silver and copper coins.

• Perfect and passive forms are rare. (Perfect forms and perfect passive participle are usually supplied by its synonym, percutio.)
• The verb form feriunt, meaning they strike, had the archaic spelling ferinunt.

• (I hit): īcō, percutiō, pulsō, tundō, verberō

• secūrī feriō (I behead)
• foedus feriō (I make a compact, covenant or treaty)
• amōrum turpissimōrum foedera feriō (I form illicit connections)

• ferio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ferio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to beat one's brow: frontem ferire, percutere
    
  • to slaughter victims: victimas (oxen), hostias (smaller animals, especially sheep) immolare, securi ferire, caedere, mactare
    
  • to execute a person, cut off his head: securi percutere, ferire aliquem
    
  • to conclude a treaty, an alliance: foedus facere (cum aliquo), icere, ferire
    

ferio

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of feriar.