English

Proper noun

Festus

1. A city in Missouri State.

Esperanto

Verb

festus

1. conditional of festi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁s-tos, from *dʰéh₁s ‎(“god, godhead, deity; sacred place”). See also fanum and feriae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.tus/, [ˈfeːs.tʊs]

Adjective

fēstus m ‎(feminine fēsta, neuter fēstum); first/second declension

1. Of or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• festīvus
• fēstum

Related terms

Descendants

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fēstus¹”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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 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, pages 212-213