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WordInfo
Morphology
Lemmata
Forms: festa (data provider: donatus-sup), feste (data provider: donatus-sup)
Dictionary
Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Fést-a, s. f. dim. Fést-icciuóla, disp. Fést-áccia,
1. festival, holiday. Guardar la —, to keep holiday. Far la — ad uno, to kill, despatch a person. Conciare uno pel dì delle feste, to thrash a person soundly. Ogni dì non è —, every day is not Sunday. Avere —, to make holiday. Prendere in —, to take in jest. La — di natale,Christmas-day; 2. joy, mirth, delight, content, gladness; 3. caresses, great show of kindness.Ricevere con —, to receive with kindness;4. feast, entertainment, banquet. Far —, to banquet, revel; 5. a fairing.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
festa: a feastiuall or holy day, a resting day from labour. Also a feast or a banquet. Also ioy, pleasure, solace or shew of kindnesse. Also a kind of simnell or cracknell bread. Also vsed for any good thing to eate.