# feste
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfeste]
* Rhymes: -este
* Hyphenation: fes‧te

### Adverb

feste
* festively

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛstə/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: Feste, Veste

### Adjective

feste
* inflection of fest:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛ.ste/
* Rhymes: -ɛste
* Hyphenation: fè‧ste

### Noun

feste f
* plural of festa

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfeːs.te/, [ˈfeːs̠t̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfes.te/, [ˈfɛst̪e]

### Adjective

fēste
* vocative masculine singular of fēstus

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* feeste

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa < Latin festum.

### Noun

feste
* feast

#### Descendants

* English: feast

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

### Noun

feste f (plural festes)
* party, celebration
* feast

#### Descendants

* French: fête (see there for further descendants)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse festa (sense 1), and from fest (sense 2).

### Verb

feste (imperative fest, present tense fester, passive festes, simple past and past participle festa or festet, present participle festende)
* to attach, fix (fasten), or fasten
* to celebrate, party, have a party

#### Derived terms

* fotfeste (of noun)
* grunnfeste
* korsfeste
* stadfeste

### References

* “feste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

* The verb is inherited from Old Norse festa, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną. Factitive of the adjective fast.
* The noun may be formed off the adjective fast, or derived from the verb.

#### Alternative forms

* festa (verb, a-infinitive)

#### Verb

feste (present tense festar or fester, past tense festa or feste, past participle festa or fest, present participle festande, imperative fest)
* to affix, attach
* to fasten, secure
* (rare, dated) to betroth

##### Derived terms

* augefeste
* augnefeste
* eidfeste
* festepunkt
* festetid
* festetomt
* festne
* festning
* gravfeste
* grunnfeste
* heimfeste
* hugfeste
* jordfeste
* korsfeste
* krossfeste
* lovfeste
* programfeste
* refelfeste
* rotfeste
* skriftfeste
* stadfeste
* talfeste
* terminfeste
* tidfeste
* vedtektsfeste

#### Noun

feste n (definite singular festet, indefinite plural feste, definite plural festa)
* an act of fastening, binding or attaching something to something else
* point of attachment, the place where something is connected or fastened to something else
** grip, hold
** (figurative) a safe foundation, anchor
** a place where something or someone might get stuck
* a tool for fastening, binding or otherwise attaching something to something else
* handle (of a sword)
* (archaic) a betrothal

##### Derived terms

* ankerfeste
* arvefeste
* bladfeste
* båtfeste
* etterfeste
* festeavgift
* festebonde
* festebrev
* festepengar
* festesetel
* festesmurning
* fotfeste
* førefeste
* handfeste
* hoftefeste
* hårfeste
* rotfeste
* samfeste
* skorfeste
* tannfeste
* tidfeste
* tilhengarfeste
* tilhengjarfeste

### Etymology 2

From fest +‎ -e, the first part deriving form Latin festum.

#### Alternative forms

* festa (a-infinitive)

#### Verb

feste (present tense festar, past tense festa, past participle festa, passive infinitive festast, present participle festande, imperative feste/fest)
* to party

##### Derived terms

* festing

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

feste
* definite singular of fest
* plural of fest

### References

* “feste” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (early) /ˈfɛs.tə/
* IPA: (late) /ˈfɛː.tə/

### Noun

feste oblique singular, f (oblique plural festes, nominative singular feste, nominative plural festes)
* party; celebration
* feast
** c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:Et tuit li juene et li chenu A une feste sont venu[.]All all the young and the old Came to a feast.

#### Descendants

* Middle French: feste
** French: fête (see there for further descendants)
* Norman: fête
* → Middle Dutch: fêeste (see there for further descendants)
* → Middle English: feeste (see there for further descendants)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: fes‧te

### Verb

feste
* inflection of festar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative