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
Besides, every private family had a number of feriae, kept either by way of rejoicing for some benefit, or mourning for some calamity.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Hence the early Christians called the days of the week feriae.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
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
They had their festi and profesti, their feriae stativae, and conceptivae, their fixed and moveable feasts; their esuriales, or fasting days, and their precidaneae, or vigils.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
