festive - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From French festif, from Latin festivus (“pertaining to a feast, gay, lively, joyous”). Equivalent to feast + -ive.
festive (comparative more festive, superlative most festive)
- Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
The room was decked out in festive streamers, with flowers everywhere.
- In the mood to celebrate.
Please put the Christmas decorations away, I'm really not in a festive mood.
having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration
- Armenian: տոնական (hy) (tonakan)
- Bulgarian: празничен (prazničen), тържествен (bg) (tǎržestven)
- Catalan: festiu
- Czech: slavnostní (cs)
- Danish: festlig
- Dutch: feestelijk (nl), feestelijke (nl)
- Esperanto: festa (eo)
- Finnish: juhlava (fi)
- French: festif (fr) m, festive (fr) f
- Georgian: მხიარული (mxiaruli)
- German: festlich (de)
- Greek: γιορτινός (el) (giortinós), εορταστικός (el) (eortastikós)
- Hungarian: ünnepi (hu)
- Italian: festivo (it) m, festiva (it) f
- Latin: festus, festivus (la)
- Macedonian: празничен (prazničen)
- Polish: biesiadny (pl)
- Romanian: festiv (ro)
- Russian: пра́здничный (ru) (prázdničnyj)
- Yiddish: יום־טובֿדיק (yontefdik)
festive
festive
From fēstīvus (“joyous, festive; pleasing”), from fēstus (“feast-like; festive”).
fēstīvē (not comparable)
- “festive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “festive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- festive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.