Translation
holiday, day off
Word origin
From Latin feriae ('festival days, days of rest'), kept in German as Ferien. English fair, the travelling festival, descends from the same word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- feriae
- English cognates
- fair
Examples
somerajn ?
Where will you spend your summer holidays?
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After the holidays I will start working again.
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Today is a holiday, and the school is closed.
is strictly one work-free day, so the fortnight away is , plural, or the tidy compound libertempo if you mean free time in general. is to spend the holidays at the seaside, and o stretches the word into the activity of holidaying itself. A public holiday with a name attached is usually a festotago, which keeps and politely separate.
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