Feminine
feira
- (feminine) market
- (feminine) fair
- (feminine, figuratively) confusion
- (feminine) designation for a weekday in Portuguese: e.g. segunda-feira for Monday, terça-feira for Tuesday, etc.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfe(j).ɾɐ/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese feira, from Late Latin feria (“festival, holiday”), from Latin feriae, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”). Cognate with Galician feira, Spanish feria, French foire, Italian fiera and English fair. Doublet of féria
Related words
sales activity
food market
annual fair
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