festival

festival

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English

Alternative forms

  • feastiuall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
  • Hyphenation: fes‧tiv‧al

Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

  1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

Noun

festival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)

  1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
  2. An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
  3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
  4. (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • festal
  • festive
  • festivity
  • festivities

Translations

See also

  • heortology (study of festivals), festilogy (treatise on festivals)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French festival, from Latin fēstīvālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [fəs.tiˈβal]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [fəs.tiˈval]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [fes.tiˈval]

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

  1. festival

Derived terms

  • festival de cinema (“film festival”)

Related terms

  • festa

Further reading

  • “festival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Derived from English festival.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛstɪval]
  • Hyphenation: fe‧s‧ti‧val

Noun

festival m inan

  1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Declension

Further reading

  • “festival”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “festival”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “festival”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛs.tiˌvɑl/
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

  1. a festival (festive event or gathering)

Derived terms

  • dorpsfestival
  • festivalganger
  • festivalisering
  • festivalpubliek
  • filmfestival
  • kunstfestival
  • muziekfestival
  • songfestival
  • theaterfestival

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfestivɑl/, [ˈfestʲivɑl]

Noun

festival (genitive festivali, partitive festivali)

  1. festival

Declension

Derived terms

  • filmifestival

Further reading

  • “festival”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • “festival”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “festival”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • festival in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Etymology

English festival, from Old French festival.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

  1. festival

Descendants

  • → Greek: φεστιβάλ (festivál)
  • → Turkish: festival

Further reading

  • “festival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Noun

festival (plural festival-festival)

  1. festival

Italian

Alternative forms

  • festivale

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.sti.val/, (traditional) /fe.stiˈval/
  • Rhymes: -ɛstival, (traditional) -al
  • Hyphenation: fè‧sti‧val, (traditional) fe‧sti‧vàl

Noun

festival m (invariable)

  1. festival
  2. worker's festival

Synonyms

  • mostra
  • rassegna

Related terms

  • festivaliere
  • festivaliero

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival.

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

  1. a festival

References

  • “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival.

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

  1. a festival

References

  • “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.

Pronunciation

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

  1. festival

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Pronunciation

Noun

festival n (plural festivaluri)

  1. festival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

  1. festival

Declension

See also

  • praznik

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfestival]

Noun

festival m inan (declension pattern of dub)

  1. festival

Declension

Further reading

  • “festival”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /festiˈbal/ [fes.t̪iˈβ̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: fes‧ti‧val

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

  1. festival

Further reading

  • “festival”, 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

Swedish

Noun

festival c

  1. a festival (event)

Declension

Derived terms

  • pridefestival

References

  • festival in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • festival in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [festiˈval]
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

  1. festival
    Synonym: şenlik

Declension

Further reading

  • “festival”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “festival”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

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