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fe⋅ri⋅a

  [feer-ee-uh]
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–noun, plural fe⋅ri⋅ae  [feer-ee-ee] , fe⋅ri⋅as.
Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
Origin:
1850–55; < LL: day of the week (e.g. secunda fēria second day, Monday); in L only pl. fēriae holidays; see fair 2

Related forms:
fe⋅ri⋅al, adjective

fe⋅ria

  [fe-ryah; Eng. fer-ee-uh]
–noun, plural fe⋅rias  [fe-ryahs; Eng. fer-ee-uhz] . Spanish.
a local festival or fair in Spain or Spanish America, usually held in honor of a patron saint.
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fe·ri·a   (fîr'ē-ə, fěr'-)   
n.   pl. fe·ri·as or fe·ri·ae (-ē-ē')
A weekday on a church calendar on which no feast is observed.

[Medieval Latin fēria, ordinary day, weekday, from Late Latin, feast day (used with ordinals to name the days of the week), from Latin fēriae, religious festival, holidays; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.]
fe'ri·al adj.
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feriae

ancient Roman festival days during which the gods were honoured and all business, especially lawsuits, was suspended. Feriae were of two types: feriae privatae and feriae publicae. The feriae privatae, usually celebrated only by families or individuals, commemorated an event of personal or ancestral importance. Included in this group were the feriae denicales, or 10 days of mourning observed by a family after the death of one of its members

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