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feriae

religious festival

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 6 · 3.84/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 2 · 2.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 3 · 1.79/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
De Republica 3 · 1.38/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7 · 0.89/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. feriae — de Vaan

feriae 'religious festival' [f.pl. a] (PL+; Paul, ex F.fesiae) Derivatives: feriatus 'keeping holiday' {f!\.+)\ jestus [adj.] 'holiday' (P1.+), fisiivus 'festal, excellent' (PL+), fafrvitas 'festivity, charm' (P1.+), prqfislus 'ordinary, working' (PU). Pit. *βε-ιο- 'holiday', *fes-to- 'holiday'. It. cognates: O. fmiais, fiisiais, fisiais [dat.abl.pl.] '(religious) holidays' < *jesja~. PIE *dbehrs-io-, *dhehrs-to- … — [de Vaan, s.v. feriae, p. 226]

2. fērĭae — Lewis & Short

fērĭae, ārum (in the f.for fes-iae, same root with festus,

sing.: FERIA a feriendis victimis vocata, Paul. ex Fest. p. 85, 12 Müll.),

I days of rest, holidays, festivals (syn. justitium), a great number of which, both private and public, were kept by the Romans; the latter being either stativae, fixed, regularly recurring on certain days; or conceptivae, movable, settled every year anew; or imperativae, temporary, ordained by the consuls on account of some particular occurrence; or, lastly, the Nundinae, Macr. S. 1, 16; Varr. L. L. 6, § 13 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; 2, 22, 57; Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 3 et saep.: feriae Domini, Vulg. Levit. 23, 2: feriae denicales, Latinae, novendiales, privatae, etc., v. sub h. vv.—

II Transf., rest, peace, leisure: indutiae sunt belli feriae, Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 25, 2: praestare Hesperiae longas ferias, i. e. peace, Hor. C. 4, 5, 37.—Comically: venter gutturque resident esuriales ferias, keep hunger-holidays, i. e. fast, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 8: tuas possidebit mulier faxo ferias, shall fill, amuse your leisure, id. Ep. 3, 4, 37.—Prov.: sine ullis feriis, i. e. without rest, incessantly, Arn. 1, 9; cf.: feriis caret necessitas, necessity has no law, Pall. 1, 6, 7.—Sing. (eccl. Lat.): feria, a week-day, Tert. Jejun. 2.

In the wild

feriis Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.41.27.6
feriis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.21.4
feriae Cato, De agri cultura 5
feriae Suetonius, Divus Julius 40.1
feriis Cicero, De Republica 1.14
feriae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.25.2

6 of 67 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. feriae (scan pp. 226-227; entry #546). Root candidates: *bherH-, *fera-, *bher-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. feriae (scan p. 250; entry #3884).

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