Noun: fest
Sample Sentences
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a Renaissance fest
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That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them. [2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35:]
Nouns inflected like fest
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder.
6. Proto-Italic *θēstos
7. Proto-Italic *fēstosder.
8. Latin fēstus
9. Latin festumder.
10. Middle High German fëst
11. German Festbor.
12. English fest
13. Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta (see these). See: German Nouns '
Fest', Latin Nouns '
festum'.