feria

English

Etymology 1

From Ecclesiastical Latin fēria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹɪə/
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

1. A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.

Further reading

• feria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Spanish feria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ̝ɾijɐ/
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

1. (slang, California) Money.
   • 2007, “Get Your Feria” (track 11, 1:36 from the start), in Lil Rob (lyrics), Uncut for the Calles Mextape Vol. Uno‎:

     When you got a little bit of feria, the women come with no clothes

Derived terms

• ⇒? fetty

Anagrams

• Arfie, Freia, afire, faire, rafie

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish feria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɾia/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a

Noun

feria inan

1. fair, market

   Synonym: azoka

Declension

Further reading

• "feria" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
• “feria” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Verb

feria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Galician

Verb

feria

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fēria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Hyphenation: fè‧ria

Noun

feria f (plural ferie)

1. (usually in the plural) holiday (British), vacation (US)

   Synonym: vacanza

Further reading

• feria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• farei, fiera, rafie

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin fēria.

Noun

feria f (plural feries)

1. (chiefly in the plural) holiday, vacation

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin. A back-formation from fēriae, the plural form used in Classical Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.ri.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ri.a/,

Noun

fēria f (genitive fēriae); first declension

1. festival, holy day
2. holiday
3. fair
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) weekday
5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) feria (day without a feast)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

References

“feriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• feria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Verb

feria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɾja/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾja
• Syllabification: fe‧ria

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fēriae.

Noun

feria f (plural ferias)

1. fair (celebration)
2. street market
3. (slang) money, dinero

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

feria

1. inflection of feriar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “feria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014