different between feast vs fiesta

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?st, IPA^(key): /fi?st/
• Rhymes: -i?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?éh?s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete and fiesta.

Noun

feast (plural feasts)

1. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

2. Something delightful

3. A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

   • The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

   • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Synonyms

• banquet

Derived terms

• afterfeast
• feast-day
• feast for the eyes
• feastful
• feastly
• Feast of Asses
• Feast of Fools
• forefeast
• Great Feasts
• love feast
• postfeast

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin fest?re, from the noun. See above.

Verb

feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)

1. (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.

2. (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
3. (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).

4. (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
   • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

Derived terms

• feaster
• feast one’s eyes

Translations

Anagrams

• Fates, Festa, TAFEs, fates, feats, festa, fetas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”). Doublet of feast and fete.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???st?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fi??st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?

Noun

fiesta (plural fiestas)

1. (In Spanish speaking countries) A religious festival.
2. A festive occasion.

Synonyms

• (festive occasion): celebration, party

Translations

Anagrams

• afties, saftie

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin f?sta, from Latin f?sta, plural of f?stum.

Noun

fiesta f (plural fiestes)

1. party
2. festival

Finnish

Noun

fiesta

1. fiesta

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.sta/

Noun

fiesta f

1. (in Spanish speaking countries) fiesta

Declension

Further reading

• fiesta in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fiesta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin f?sta, from Latin f?sta, plural of f?stum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fjesta/, [?fjes.t?a]

Noun

fiesta f (plural fiestas)

1. party

   Synonyms: pachanga, farra, (Mexico) reventón, (Honduras) charrango, juerga, parranda

2. feast
3. feast day (of a saint)
4. holiday

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Basque: besta
• ? Cebuano: pista
• ? English: fiesta
• ? Finnish: fiesta

Related terms

• festejar
• festín
• festivo
• festival
• festividad

Further reading

• “fiesta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.