Feminine

feira

Meaning

  1. (feminine) market
  2. (feminine) fair
  3. (feminine, figuratively) confusion
  4. (feminine) designation for a weekday in Portuguese: e.g. segunda-feira for Monday, terça-feira for Tuesday, etc.

Frequency

B2
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

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