festivitas
Latin
noun
Definitions
- festivity, merriment, joy, mirth
- kind demeanour, kindness
- festival
- feast
- (of speech) humour, pleasantry, jocoseness
Etymology
Affix from Latin fēstīvus (festive, joyous, pleasing).
Origin
Latin
fēstīvus
Gloss
festive, joyous, pleasing
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Festivus English
- festiviter Latin
- fēstīvus Latin
- fēstīvālis Latin
- festivo Italian
- festiviteit Dutch, Flemish
- festivo Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- festivitas Norwegian Bokmål
- festivo Portuguese
- festivitas Norwegian Nynorsk
- festivité Old French
- festiu Catalan, Valencian