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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• festival (subs.):
      1. 1. fēriae : v. holidays.
      2. 2. dies festus, or pl. dies festi: to celebrate the periodical f.s of the gods, dies f. et sollennes deorum celebrare, Cic.: about the time of the f., sub dies f., Cic.: the Syracusans keep the anniversary of the day as a f., Syracusani f. dies anniversarios agunt, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, extr.: to proclaim a f. to the city, diem f. urbi indicere, Justin. 24, 3.
      3. 3. festum (poet.): the f. of Venus, f. Veneris, Ov. F. 4, 877: Hor.: also pl.: f. of the Idaean mother, Idaeae festa parentis, Ov. F. 4, 182.
      4. 4. sollenne, solemne (soll.), is, n. (a f. as periodical): a f. introduced from Arcadia, s. allatum ab Arcadia, Liv. 1, 5: f. of Faith, Fidei s., Liv.: also pl.: the f. of Isis, sollennia Isidos, Prop. 3, 31 (33), 1: Suet. Of the special names of f.s, the foll. are the most important: f. of Saturn, Sāturnālia, orum and ium, n. pl.: on the second, third, day of the f. of Saturn, secundis, tertiis, Saturnalibus, Cic. Att. 13, 52: of Quirinus, Quĭrīnālia; of Bacchus, Lībĕrālia; of Pan, Lŭpercālia; of the Manes, Fērālia; of Terminus, Termĭnālia; of the mother of the gods, Mĕgălēsia; of Ceres, Cĕreālia; of Pales, Pălīlia; of Faunus, Faunālia; of Flora, Flōrālia; of Consus, Consuālia; of the Lares, Compĭtālia; in honour of the matrons, Mātrōnālia; of Minerva, Quinquātrus, uum, f. pl. and quinquātria, orum and ium. At this or that f., is expr. by the abl. without a prep. (v. supr.): as, the Pindenissians surrendered to me on the morning of the Saturnalia, Saturnalibus mane se mihi Pindenissae dediderunt, Cic. Att. 5, 20, init.: the gen. of names of f.s in ia, is more usually iorum than ium; in the dat. and abl., ibus alone is used.
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• festival (adj.): festīvus: v. foll. art.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FESTIVAL
1. adj., festus: sollemnis (celebrated at certain times of the year, etc.): festus ac sollemnis. Festival attire, virilis ornatus dierum sollemnium (of men); mundus muliebris, qui ad dies festos comparatur (of women; both Col. 12, 3, 1): a festival garb or garment, dierum sollemnium vestis (after Col. 12, 3, 1); vestis seposita (i. e., the dress that is kept for particular occasions; Tibullus, 2, 5, 8, Bach.): in a festival garb, candide vestitus; albatus (opposed to atratus: Vid: Plaut., Cas., 4, 1, 9; Hor., Sat., 2, 2, 61, Heindorf): ☞ toga feriata (Plin., Ep., 7, 3, 2, = toga, quae feriatur): festival song, carmen laetum: a festival day; Vid. FESTIVAL, s.
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  • s. As a single day, dies festus: dies sollemnis: dies festus ac sollemnis (the anniversary of anything, or a feast celebrated every year): sollemne (if attended by a sacrifice): dies feriatus (opposed to dies profestus, Plin., 18, 6, 8, No. 1): festum is poetical only.
  • Without reference to its being confined to a single day, sollemnia feriae dies: festi (sollemnia, as far as they are solemn or regularly returning days; feriae, so far as they are days of rest or recreation; festa, or, in prose, dies festi, so far as they are days of rejoicing, Döderlein): hilaria, ium, plur. (a feast in honor of Cybele): dies laeti (joyful days, in general): epulae, quae fiunt ex laetitia (if the festival is attended by a banquet; Vid: Liv., 22, 50, in.): that day was a national festival, laetissimus ille dies civitati illuxit: to decree that the anniversary of a victory should be observed as a solemn festival, decernere, ut inter festos dies referatur (dies), quo victoria patrata sit (Tac., Ann., 13, 14, 4). ☞ Avoid festivitas, which is wrong, as well as the later sollemnitas. OBS. For “the festival of such or such a god, *the Romans had particular names, mostly in the neuter plur.; as, Consualia, Palilia, etc. A marriage festival, sollemnia nuptiarum (Suet., Tac.). To celebrate a festival, diem festum agere; during three days, per triduum.