feria
noun
a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
feriae
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pluralof feria.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the Augustan age the feriae stativae were very numerous, as may be seen from what we possess of the Fasti of Ovid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Of a similar nature—marking, as Ovid tells us, the completion of the sowing—was the feriae sementivae or Paganalia, associated with the earth-goddesses, Ceres and Tellus.
From The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey
This delicious edict, unparalleled in Roman history, caused the grave Livy to declare that the people must have grown tired, not only of the earthquakes, but of the feriae appointed to expiate them.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Why did the Church adopt the word feriae?
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
The root-notion of feriae was a day set apart for the worship of the gods, and on it therefore the citizen ought to do 'no manner of work.'
From The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey
