ferial

From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹɪəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪəl

ferial (not comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
2. Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎, London: Chatto & Windus, page 289:

     [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing their ferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 136:

     In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.

ferial (plural ferials)

1. (ecclesiastical) A feria.

• A-lifer, failer, farlie, fraile

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧al

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• Rhymes: -aːl

ferial (strong nominative masculine singular ferialer, not comparable)

1. (Austria, dated, relational) holiday

• Ferialjob
• Ferialpraktikum
• Ferialpraxis

• “ferial” in Duden online

• feriall, feryal, feryall, feryalle, fferyel

Borrowed from Medieval Latin fēriālis; equivalent to ferie (“weekday”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɛːriˈaːl/, /ˈfɛːrial/

ferial

1. (chiefly Late Middle English) ferial (pertaining to an ordinary day)

• English: ferial

• “fēriāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ferial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular feriale)

1. ferial (pertaining to a holiday)

• IPA^(key): /feˈɾjal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fe‧rial

ferial m or f (masculine and feminine plural feriales)

1. ferial, on a weekday

• “ferial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10