FERIAE

FERIA

feria

(noun) (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint

feria

(noun) a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated; “in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so ‘secunda feria’ meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

feriae

plural of feria

Anagrams

• faerie, færie

Source: Wiktionary


FERIA

Fe"ri*a, n.; pl. Feriæ (. (Eccl.)

Definition: A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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