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• feastiuall (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive +‎ -al. Displaced native 古期英語 frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from 中期英語 festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
• ハイフネーション: fes‧tiv‧al

形容詞

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]

名詞

festival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
   • 2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:

     All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

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.

   The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.

   A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.

3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4. (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.

派生語

関連する語

• festal
• festive
• festivity
• festivities

参考

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