feste

• IPA^(key): [ˈfeste]
• Rhymes: -este
• Hyphenation: fes‧te

feste

1. festively

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstə/

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• Homophones: Feste, Veste

feste

1. inflection of fest:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.ste/
• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: fè‧ste

feste f

1. plural of festa

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.te/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfes.te/, [ˈfɛst̪e]

fēste

1. vocative masculine singular of fēstus

• feeste

Borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa < Latin festum.

feste

1. feast

• English: feast

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

feste f (plural festes)

1. party, celebration
2. feast

• French: fête (see there for further descendants)

From Old Norse festa (sense 1), and from fest (sense 2).

feste (imperative fest, present tense fester, passive festes, simple past and past participle festa or festet, present participle festende)

1. to attach, fix (fasten), or fasten
2. to celebrate, party, have a party

• “feste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• The verb is inherited from Old Norse festa, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną. Factitive of the adjective fast.
• The noun may be formed off the adjective fast, or derived from the verb.

• festa (verb, a-infinitive)

feste (present tense festar or fester, past tense festa or feste, past participle festa or fest, present participle festande, imperative fest)

1. to affix, attach
2. to fasten, secure
3. (rare, dated) to betroth

feste n (definite singular festet, indefinite plural feste, definite plural festa)

1. an act of fastening, binding or attaching something to something else
2. point of attachment, the place where something is connected or fastened to something else
   1. grip, hold
   2. (figurative) a safe foundation, anchor
   3. a place where something or someone might get stuck
3. a tool for fastening, binding or otherwise attaching something to something else
4. handle (of a sword)
5. (archaic) a betrothal

From fest +‎ -e, the first part deriving form Latin festum.

• festa (a-infinitive)

feste (present tense festar, past tense festa, past participle festa, passive infinitive festast, present participle festande, imperative feste/fest)

1. to party

• festing

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

feste

1. definite singular of fest
2. plural of fest

• “feste” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈfɛs.tə/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈfɛː.tə/

feste oblique singular, f (oblique plural festes, nominative singular feste, nominative plural festes)

1. party; celebration
2. feast
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Et tuit li juene et li chenu
     A une feste sont venu[.]

     All all the young and the old
     Came to a feast.

• Middle French: feste
  • French: fête (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: fête
• → Middle Dutch: fêeste (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: feeste (see there for further descendants)

• Hyphenation: fes‧te

feste

1. inflection of festar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative