holiday Copy link Outline 1. dies festus (day of religious festivity)2. fēriae, arum (strictly, like preced.; denoting a succession of such days)3. dies fēriātus • holiday: 1. dies festus (day of religious festivity): v. festival. 2. fēriae, arum (strictly, like preced.; denoting a succession of such days): the Latin h.s, f. Latinae, Liv.: Cic.: v. Dict. Antiq. p. 529 (for which Latinae, absol., is frequent, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, med.): often in gen. sense, legal h.s, forenses f., Cic. de Or. 3, 22, extr.: to keep h. for three days, f. triduum habere, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, extr.; f. observare, Macr. Sat. 1, 16, init.; f. agere (in looser sense, to indulge in jollity), Petr. 24. 3. dies fēriātus: Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (24), 3. Phr.: to keep h., feriari, Macr. S. Scip. 1, 7: but the use of any part of the verb except p. part. feriatus (= keeping h.) is rare: keeping h. from public toil, a negotiis publicis feriatus, Cic. de Or. 3, 15, fin.: Varr.: servants keeping h., famuli operum (= operibus) soluti, Hor. Od. 3, 17, extr.: a partial h., dies intercisus, Macr. Sat. 1, 16, init. N.B.--Best word for a school h., dies feriatus (cf. supr.); but may usu. be expr. by phr.: to-day is a h., hodie ferias agimus; a literarum studiis feriati sumus: to ask a whole h., rogare ut toto die ferias agere liceat.
HOLIDAY Copy link • HOLIDAYdies feriatus (opposed to dies profestus, Plin., 18, 6, 8, No. 1): feriae: There are several holidays next month, sequens mensis complures dies feriatos habet (Plin.): to take a holiday from business, otium sibi sumere a negotio; tempus vacat ab aliqua re: to be able to take a holiday, habere otium: to be so far able to take a holiday from business, that, etc., tantum alicui a re sua est otii, ut, etc.: not to be able to take a holiday, otium non est; vacui temporis nihil habere: to have a holiday, ferias habere or agere: ☞ not feriari, though feriatus = otiosus, “making holiday,” is classical, but rare. IMPROPR., To be making holiday, nihil agere: domi desidem sedere (to sit at home idle).