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
feriae
plural of feria
• faerie, færie
Source: Wiktionary
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
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
