feriae

English

feriae

From Proto-Italic *fēsiās, nominative feminine plural of an adjective *fēsios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s-yo-s, from *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”), related to Latin fēstus (“festive”).^[1]

Cognate with Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos, “divine”) and Oscan 𐌚𐌉𐌝𐌔𐌝𐌀𐌉𐌔 (fiísíais), 𐌚𐌉𐌉𐌔𐌉𐌉𐌔 (fiisiis), 𐌚𐌉𐌔𐌉𐌀𐌝𐌔 (fisiaís, dat.-abl. pl.). In classical Latin, rendered plural even for singular instances by the Latin treatment of most recurring calendrical days;^[2]^[3] singular usage is a development in Late Latin.

fēriae f pl (genitive fēriārum); first declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Catalan: fira
Dalmatian: fiara
→ Danish: ferie
→ English: feria
Franco-Provençal: fêre
→ French: férié
Friulian: fiere
Galician: feira
→ German: Ferien
Italian: feria, fiera
Ladin: feria
→ Norwegian Bokmål: ferie
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: ferie
Occitan: fièira
Old French: foire
- French: foire
- → Middle English: feyre, faire, fare
  - English: fair
  - Yola: feyer, vaar
→ Old High German: fīra, firra, fiera
- Middle High German: vīre, virre, vīere, vīer, fīre, firre, fīere, fīer
  - German: Feier
  - Hunsrik: Feier
  - Luxembourgish: Feier
→ Polish: ferie
Portuguese: feira, féria
Romanian: ferie
→ Serbo-Croatian: ferije
Sicilian: fera
→ Spanish: feria
→ Swedish: fira

^ 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 212-3
^ Kennedy, Benjamin Hall, The Public School Latin Grammar (1879), p. 126.
^ Michels, Agnes Kirsopp, Calendar of the Roman Republic (2015), p. 19.

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“feriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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feriae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“feriae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“feriae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin