festschrift
English
WOTD – 3 October 2019
Etymology
Borrowed from German Festschrift, from Fest (“celebration; festival”) + Schrift (“writing (work of an author)”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstˌʃɹɪft/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛs(t)ˌʃɹɪft/
Audio (UK) File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-festschrift.wav (file) - Hyphenation: fest‧schrift
Noun
festschrift (plural festschrifts or festschriften)
- A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial or tribute to an academic or some other respected person. [from late 19th c.]
- Synonym: liber amicorum
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, “As of Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN; republished London: Abacus, 2013, →ISBN, page 65:
- Incandenza's burial in Québec's L'Islet County was twice delayed by annular hyperfloration cycles. Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift.
Usage notes
The word is often written as Festschrift (plural Festschriften) following the German orthography.
Alternative forms
Translations
collection published as a memorial or tribute to a scholar
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See also
- Gedenkschrift (“a festschrift presented posthumously”)
- memorial
- retrospective
- tribute
Further reading
festschrift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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