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English
Etymology 1
From Ecclesiastical Latin fēria.
Pronunciation
Noun
feria (plural ferias or feriae)
- A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
Further reading
Etymology 2
From Spanish feria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛ̝ɾijɐ/
- Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a
Noun
feria (plural ferias or feriae)
- (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
Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish feria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feɾia/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a
Noun
feria inan
- fair, market
- Synonym: azoka
Declension
Declension of feria (inanimate, ending in -a)
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Catalan
Verb
feria
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir
Galician
Verb
feria
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fēria.
Pronunciation
Noun
feria f (plural ferie)
- (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
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin fēria.
Noun
feria f (plural feries)
- (chiefly in the plural) holiday, vacation
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin. A back-formation from fēriae, the plural form used in Classical Latin.
Pronunciation
Noun
fēria f (genitive fēriae); first declension
- festival, holy day
- holiday
- fair
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) weekday
- (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
Portuguese
Verb
feria
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfeɾja/
- Rhymes: -eɾja
- Syllabification: fe‧ria
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin fēriae.
Noun
feria f (plural ferias)
- fair (celebration)
- street market
- (slang) money, dinero
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
feria
- inflection of feriar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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