n15163408
type | n |
lex_filenum | 28 |
def | a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated |
examples | 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 |
Outgoing links | |
Hypernym | weekday |
Derivationally related form | feria → ferial |
Incoming links | |
Derivationally related form | ferial → feria |
Pertainym (pertains to noun) | ferial → feria |
Hyponym | weekday |
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