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feast

/ˈfist/FEEST
/ˈfist/FEEST

Meaningfestivals

Common meaning: a festive meal

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√BHA‘shine’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 223, p. 738 · scan
  2. Latinfestasource
  3. Old Frenchfestesource
  4. Frenchfetesource
  5. Middle Englishfestesource
  6. Englishfeast‘a festive meal’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin festa ‘festivals’.

Roots

  • festa Latin “festivals”

Related words

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