feria

See also: Feria, and féria

English

Etymology 1

From Ecclesiastical Latin fēria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.ɹi.ə/
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

1. A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.

Further reading

• feria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Spanish feria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ̝ɾijɐ/
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

1. (slang, California) Money.
   • 2007, “Get Your Feria” (track 11, 1:36 from the start), in Lil Rob (lyrics), Uncut for the Calles Mextape Vol. Uno‎^[1]:

     When you got a little bit of feria, the women come with no clothes

Derived terms

• ⇒? fetty

Anagrams

• Arfie, Freia, afire, faire, rafie

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish feria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɾia/ [fe.ɾi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: fe‧ri‧a

Noun

feria inan

1. fair, market

   Synonym: azoka

Declension

Declension of feria (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	feria	feria	feriak
ergative	feriak	feriak	feriek
dative	feriari	feriari	feriei
genitive	feriaren	feriaren	ferien
comitative	feriarekin	feriarekin	feriekin
causative	feriarengatik	feriarengatik	feriengatik
benefactive	feriarentzat	feriarentzat	ferientzat
instrumental	feriaz	feriaz	feriez
inessive	feriatan	ferian	ferietan
locative	feriatako	feriako	ferietako
allative	feriatara	feriara	ferietara
terminative	feriataraino	feriaraino	ferietaraino
directive	feriatarantz	feriarantz	ferietarantz
destinative	feriatarako	feriarako	ferietarako
ablative	feriatatik	feriatik	ferietatik
partitive	feriarik	—	—
prolative	feriatzat	—	—

Further reading

• “feria”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, Euskaltzaindia
• “feria”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Verb

feria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Galician

Verb

feria

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fēria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Hyphenation: fè‧ria

Noun

feria f (plural ferie)

1. (usually in the plural) holiday (British), vacation (US)

   Synonym: vacanza

Further reading

• feria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• farei, fiera, rafie

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin fēria.

Noun

feria f (plural feries)

1. (chiefly in the plural) holiday, vacation

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin. A back-formation from fēriae, the plural form used in Classical Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.ri.a/, [ˈfeːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ri.a/, [ˈfɛːriä]

Noun

fēria f (genitive fēriae); first declension

1. festival, holy day
2. holiday
3. fair
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) weekday
5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) feria (day without a feast)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fēria	fēriae
genitive	fēriae	fēriārum
dative	fēriae	fēriīs
accusative	fēriam	fēriās
ablative	fēriā	fēriīs
vocative	fēria	fēriae

Derived terms

• fēria quarta
• fēria quinta
• fēria secunda
• fēria sexta
• fēria tertia

 

References

“feriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• feria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Verb

feria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ferir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɾja/ [ˈfe.ɾja]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾja
• Syllabification: fe‧ria

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fēriae.

Noun

feria f (plural ferias)

1. fair (celebration)
2. street market
3. (slang) money, dinero

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

Derived terms

• barraca de feria
• caseta de feria
• de feria
• feria de muestras
• feriado (“holiday”)
• mono de feria
• revolver la feria
• ya la feria

 

Etymology 2

Verb

feria

1. inflection of feriar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “feria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28