fastes
French, noun/fast/
fastes is spelled F-A-S-T-E-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fastes is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of faste” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tables ou livres du calendrier où étaient indiqués les jours de fêtes, d’assemblées publiques, de jeux”.
What does fastes mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of faste
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tables ou livres du calendrier où étaient indiqués les jours de fêtes, d’assemblées publiques, de jeux. 2. Table où les noms de tous les consuls étaient rangés dans leur ordre chronologique. 3. Registres publics contenant le récit d’actions mémorables.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce fastes?
- /fast/
- \fast\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fastes in French?
fastes appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).