fête
French
/fɛːt/, [yn fɛːt]
noun
Definitions
- winter holidays (always in plural)
- party
- (Christianity) name day
- (Canada) birthday
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French feste inherited from Old French feste inherited from Latin fēsta, fēstum (festival, holiday, feast, banquet).
Origin
Latin
fēstum
Gloss
festival, holiday, feast, banquet
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
祭
Emoji
🎎 🥮
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -fest English
- fest English
- festschrift English
- fete English
- fête English
- festa Latin
- festum Latin
- fēsta Latin
- fēstum Latin
- fēstus Latin
- Erntedankfest German
- Fest German
- Festbier German
- Festessen German
- Festmahl German
- Festschmaus German
- Festschrift German
- Festzug German
- Fete German
- Frühlingsfest German
- Laubhüttenfest German
- Schützenfest German
- Straßenfest German
- Sängerfest German
- Volksfest German
- festlich German
- festa Italian
- fêteren Dutch, Flemish
- faîte French
- fêtard French
- fêter French
- trouble-fête French
- troubler French
- feta Polish
- feeste Middle English
- feste Middle English
- fest Danish
- feste Old French
- fester Old French
- festo Esperanto
- feeste Middle Dutch
- fêeste Middle Dutch
- fête Norman
- fest Middle High German
- fëst Middle High German
- festoj Albanian
- festë Albanian
- feste Middle French
- trouble-feste Middle French
- festa Old Portuguese
- Fäscht Alemannic German
- Fëst Alemannic German
- fiesta Asturian
- fieste Friulian
- *first Frankish
- festa Old Occitan
- fiesta Old Spanish
- fiasta Dalmatian
- festa Ladin