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festo

festo is a Latin form of festus, meaning “festive, holiday; (festum) feast day”. It is the ablative singular neuter adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective or dative singular neuter adjective or dative singular masculine adjective.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.70: … r, quanta aut superiorem Africanum Hannibale victo aut posteriorem Karthagine eversa? quem Tiberina descensio festo illo die tanto gaudio affecit, quanto L. Paulum, cum regem Persem captum adduceret, eodem flumine invectio? A …

Horace, Carmina 3.28.1: Festo quid potius die

Plautus, Poenulus 3.5.758: die fésto celebri nobilique Aphrodisiis.

All forms of festus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.