feste

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -este
• Hyphenation: fes‧te

Adverb

feste

1. festively

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstə/

• Audio

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• Homophones: Feste, Veste

Adjective

feste

1. inflection of fest:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.ste/
• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: fè‧ste

Noun

feste f

1. plural of festa

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.te/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.te/,

Adjective

fēste

1. vocative masculine singular of fēstus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• feeste

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa < Latin festum.

Noun

feste

1. feast

Descendants

• English: feast

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Noun

feste f (plural festes)

1. party, celebration
2. feast

Descendants

• French: fête (see there for further descendants)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse festa (sense 1), and from fest (sense 2).

Verb

feste (imperative fest, present tense fester, passive festes, simple past and past participle festa or festet, present participle festende)

1. to attach, fix (fasten), or fasten
2. to celebrate, party, have a party

Derived terms

References

• “feste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

• The verb is inherited from Old Norse festa, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną. Factitive of the adjective fast.
• The noun may be formed off the adjective fast, or derived from the verb.

Alternative forms

• (verb): festa (a-infinitive)

Verb

feste (present tense festar or fester, past tense festa or feste, past participle festa or fest, present participle festande, imperative fest)

1. to affix, attach
2. to fasten, secure
3. (rare, dated) to betroth

Derived terms

Noun

feste n (definite singular festet, indefinite plural feste, definite plural festa)

1. an act of fastening, binding or attaching something to something else
2. point of attachment, the place where something is connected or fastened to something else
   1. grip, hold
   2. (figurative) a safe foundation, anchor
   3. a place where something or someone might get stuck
3. a tool for fastening, binding or otherwise attaching something to something else
4. handle (of a sword)
5. (archaic) a betrothal

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From fest +‎ -e, the first part deriving form Latin festum.

Alternative forms

• festa (a-infinitive)

Verb

feste (present tense festar, past tense festa, past participle festa, passive infinitive festast, present participle festande, imperative feste/fest)

1. to party

Derived terms

• festing

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

feste

1. definite singular of fest
2. plural of fest

References

• “feste” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈfɛs.tə/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈfɛː.tə/

Noun

feste oblique singular, f (oblique plural festes, nominative singular feste, nominative plural festes)

1. party; celebration
2. feast
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Et tuit li juene et li chenu
     A une feste sont venu[.]

     All all the young and the old
     Came to a feast.

Descendants

• Middle French: feste
  • French: fête (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: fête
• → Middle Dutch: fêeste (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: feeste (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fes‧te

Verb

feste

1. inflection of festar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative