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"party (celebration)" in seven languages

Meaningparty (celebration)

Spanish

fiesta

/ˈfjesta/

fem.inherited

French

fête

/fɛt/

fem.inherited

Italian

festa

/ˈfɛsta/

fem.inherited

Portuguese

festa

/ˈfɛstɐ/

fem.inherited

Romanian

petrecere

/peˈtretʃere/

fem.other source · Romanian petrece 'to spend (time)', from Latin PERTRAICERE

Catalan

festa

/ˈfɛstə/

fem.inherited

English

party

/ˈpɑɹti/

other source · Old French partie 'part, side' (Latin PARTĪRE 'to divide')

The political party is partido, parti, partito: English party's true relatives.

English → Italianparty (celebration)festaNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: feast, festival, festive, fiesta.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

FESTAM‘feast day (plural of FESTUM taken as feminine)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Spanish broke the open e (fiesta), French dropped the s and left a circumflex (fête), Italian kept both. English feast is the same word via Old French feste.

English relatives: feast, festival, festive, fiesta

Sound laws at work

Stressed short E breaks into ieFrench loses S before a consonant (^)

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In a sentence

  • esEl sábado hacemos una fiesta.
  • frOn fait une fête samedi.
  • itSabato facciamo una festa.
  • ptVamos dar uma festa no sábado.
  • roSâmbătă dăm o petrecere.
  • caDissabte fem una festa.
  • enWe're having a party on Saturday.

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