festus1 — Logoi (Latin)

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Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 2 · 116.96/10k
Eclogarum Liber 9 · 32.87/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Agamemnon 6 · 10.79/10k
Fasti 31 · 9.94/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
De idolatria 5 · 7.25/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k

Densest 12 of 140 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. festus — Lewis & Short

festus, a, um, adj.Sanscr. bhas, shine; lengthened from bha-; Gr. fa-, fai/nw, v. for; cf. feriae (fes-iae), orig.,

I of or belonging to the holidays (in opp. to the working-days), solemn, festive, festal, joyful, merry.

I Lit.

A Adj. (syn.: sollennis, fastus).

1 With expressions of time: festo die si quid prodegeris, profesto egere liceat, Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10: die festo celebri nobilique, id. Poen. 3, 5, 13: qui (dies) quasi deorum immortalium festi atque sollennes, apud omnes sunt celebrati, Cic. Pis. 22, 51: Syracusani festos dies anniversarios agunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1: dies festus ludorum celeberrimus et sanctissimus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 67, § 151; id. Fin. 5, 24, 70: lux, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 42; Hor. C. 4, 6, 42: tempus, id. Ep. 2, 1, 140; Juv. 15, 38: observare festa sabbata, id. 6, 159.—Hence,

2 Transf., of everything relating to holidays: chori, Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 8: clamores, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 24: corona, Ov. M. 10, 598; cf. fronde, Verg. A. 4, 459: dapes, Hor. Epod. 9, 1: mensae, Sil. 7, 198; Val. Fl. 3, 159: lusus, Mart. 1, 1: pagus, Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: urbs, gay, merry, Sil. 11, 272; 12, 752: theatra, Ov. M. 3, 111: Lares, Mart. 3, 58, 23: licentiae, of the holidays, Quint. 6, 3, 17: pax, Ov. M. 2, 795; Plin. 14, 1, 1, § 23: plebs, Tac. A. 2, 69: domus ornatu, id. ib. 3, 9: ritus, id. H. 5, 5: omina, id. A. 5, 4: cespes, Juv. 12, 2: janua, id. 12, 91.—As a term of endearment: mi animule, mea vita, mea festivitas, meus dies festus, etc., my holiday, Plaut. Cas. 1, 49.—

B Subst.: festum, i, n., a holiday, festival; a festal banquet, feast (poet. and late Lat. for dies festus): cur igitur Veneris festum Vinalia dicant, Quaeritis? Ov. F. 4, 877; 1, 190; id. M. 4, 390: forte Jovi festum Phoebus sollenne parabat, feast, id. F. 2, 247: cum dii omnes ad festum magnae matris convenissent, Lact. 1, 21, 25.—In plur.: Idaeae festa parentis erunt, Ov. F. 4, 182: festa venatione absumi, Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 91; Ov. M. 4, 33; 10, 431; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; id. Ep. 2, 2, 197; Vulg. Exod. 23, 14 al.; Greg. Mag. Homil. in Evang. 2, 26, 10; Lact. 1, 22, 24.—

II Meton., public, solemn, festal, festive, joyous (post-Aug. and rare): dolor, Stat. S. 2, 7, 134: festior annus, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 3: festissimi dies, Vop. Tac. 11: aures, i. e. gladdened, Claud. B. G. 206 (but in Stat. S. 2, 7, 90 the right read. is fata).

2. Festus — Lewis & Short

Festus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname.

I Sex. Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian of the fourth century A. D., author of a lexicographical work, De verborum significatione, in twenty books, of which only the last nine, in a very imperfect form, remain to us; with an abstract of the whole compiled by Paulus Diaconus in the eighth century. (Edited by Ottfr. Müller.)—

II Portius Festus, Governor of the Roman Province of Judea, Vulg. Acts, 25, 32 al.

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6 of 452 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Festus (scan p. 434; entry #6988).

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