See Festus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From fēstus (“joyful, merry”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Fēstus",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēste",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Fēstus<2>"
},
"expansion": "Fēstus m sg (genitive Fēstī); second declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Fēstus<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 36 30 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin cognomina",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by"
],
"id": "en-Festus-la-name-hgmEXE~e",
"links": [
[
"cognomen",
"cognomen#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 36 30 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin cognomina",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:",
"Sextus Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian"
],
"id": "en-Festus-la-name-PjRNP5a5",
"links": [
[
"cognomen",
"cognomen#English"
],
[
"grammarian",
"grammarian"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfeːs.tʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɛs.tus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Festus"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin cognomina",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
"Latin proper nouns",
"Latin second declension nouns",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_text": "From fēstus (“joyful, merry”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Fēstus",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēstō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fēste",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Fēstus<2>"
},
"expansion": "Fēstus m sg (genitive Fēstī); second declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Fēstus<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by"
],
"links": [
[
"cognomen",
"cognomen#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:",
"Sextus Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian"
],
"links": [
[
"cognomen",
"cognomen#English"
],
[
"grammarian",
"grammarian"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfeːs.tʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɛs.tus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Festus"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Festus meaning in Latin (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (cdfa371 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.