festa
/ˈfɛstə/noun
festa is a noun meaning “A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-S-T-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of festa is festas.
What does festa mean?
noun
- 1
A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce festa?
- /ˈfɛstə/
Festa has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of festa
- festas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is festa?
Festa appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does festa come from?
Borrowed from Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Maltese festa. Doublet of fete, fiesta, feast, and fest.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).