festum

Substantive from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.tum/, [ˈfeːs.tũ]

fēstum n (genitive fēstī); second declension

1. a holiday, festival
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Lactantius to this entry?)
2. a banquet, feast

Second declension.

• Corsican: festa
• Dalmatian: fiasta
• Italian: festa
  • → Maltese: festa
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Venetian)

    Cyrillic: фешта

    Latin: fešta

• Old French: feste
  • Middle French: feste
    • French: fête
      • → English: fête
      • → German: Fete
  • Norman: fête
  • → Middle Dutch: fêeste
    • Dutch: feest
      • Afrikaans: fees
      • → Dutch Low Saxon: feest
      • → West Frisian: feestje (diminutive form)
    • Limburgish: fieës
    • West Flemish: fjiste
  • → Middle English: feeste, feste
    • Scots: feast
    • English: feast
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: fiesta
• Old Occitan: festa
  • Catalan: festa
  • Occitan: fèsta
• Old Portuguese: festa
  • Galician: festa
  • Portuguese: festa
    • Kabuverdianu: festa
    • → Malay: pesta
      • Indonesian: pesta
    • → Sranan Tongo: fesa
      • → Dutch: fissa
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: fiesta
    • → Basque: besta
    • → English: fiesta
    • → Finnish: fiesta
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fieste
  • Ladin: festa
  • Romansch: fiasta, festa
• Sicilian: festa
• Venetian: festa
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Italian)

    Cyrillic: фешта

    Latin: fešta

• → Albanian: festë
• → Middle High German: fëst
  • Alemannic German: Fëst
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Fest

  • German: Fest
    • → Danish: fest
    • → English: fest
    • → Norwegian: fest
    • → Swedish: fest
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Fescht

• → Moroccan Arabic: فيشطة‎ (fišṭa)
• → Northern Sami: feasta

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• festum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum agere (of an individual)
    
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum celebrare (of a larger number)