feria

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A family enjoys the feria with colorful rides and music.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A local festival or fair in Spanish-speaking regions: A public celebration, often with entertainment, food, and stalls, typically held in honor of a patron saint.
   • A weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated: An ordinary day of the week, not a Sunday or a feast day.
   • A historical term for weekdays in medieval Latin: In the Middle Ages, "feria" was used with a prefixed ordinal number (e.g., secunda feria for Monday) to designate weekdays, while Sunday and Saturday retained their specific names.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Festival):
  • The town's annual feria features parades, traditional dancing, and bullfights.
  • We visited the feria to enjoy the local crafts and food stalls.
• Noun (Ordinary Weekday):
  • In the liturgical calendar, a feria is a day with no special religious observance.
  • The meeting was scheduled for a feria, as no holidays fell that week.

Advanced Usage

• Ecclesiastical/Liturgical Context: In modern Catholic liturgy, "feria" specifically denotes an ordinary weekday not assigned a particular saint's feast or solemnity.
  • The priest wore green vestments for the feria Mass.
• Historical/Numeral Usage: The medieval system of numbering weekdays, where meant "weekday."
  • "Quarta feria" was the medieval Latin term for Wednesday.

Variants and Related Words

• Ferial (adj): Pertaining to an ordinary weekday or a feria.
  • The ferial office is simpler than the feast day liturgy.

Synonyms

• Fair: A gathering for entertainment and commerce (for the festival meaning).
• Weekday: A day of the week other than Sunday or Saturday (for the ordinary day meaning).
• Workday: A day on which work is ordinarily done.

Notes on Meaning

• The primary contemporary meaning is tied to Spanish and Latin American culture, referring to a festive fair.
• The religious and historical meanings are more specialized, used primarily in liturgical, historical, or academic contexts. The two meanings (festival and ordinary day) are distinct and context-dependent.

Học thuật

Noun

1. (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
2. a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
   • in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday