feira
Meaning
- (feminine) market; fair
- (feminine,figuratively) confusion, disorder, din
- (dated,feminine) designation for a weekday in Galician, e.g. corta feira (“Wednesday”, literally “fourth weekday”)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fei‧ra
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfejɾa̝/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese feira, from Late Latin feria (“festival, holiday”), from Latin feriae, from Proto-Indo-European *dhēs- (“god, godhead, deity”). Cognate with Portuguese feira, Spanish feria, French foire, Italian fiera, Sicilian fera and English fair.
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