festa

[ fes-tuh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Origin of festa¹

1810–20; < Italian < Latin: holiday, plural of fēstum. See fest

The marriage festa was celebrated in Palazzo Riccardi with great magnificence.

We will make it his festa also and afterwards we shall be discovering his day in the calendario.

Læti tunc dies, festa loca, quæcumque adventu hospitioque dignatur.

On the 15th of September of that year, which is its festa, another image of wood is carried processionally with much pomp.

For days before the festa they go about Catania with trays collecting soldi from all they meet.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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