feria (n)

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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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