FromMiddle Englishferial, fromMedieval Latinfēriālis, fromLatinfēria(“weekday”) (whence the first sense),fēriae(“holidays”) (whence the second).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹɪəl/
• Rhymes:-ɛɹɪəl

ferial (notcomparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinaryweekday, rather than afestival orfast.
2. Jovial,festive, as if pertaining to aholiday.
   • 1921,Aldous Huxley,Crome Yellow‎^[1], London: Chatto & Windus,page289:

     [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing theirferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’

   • 1922 February,James Joyce, “[Episode 7:Aeolus]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, […],→OCLC, part II[Odyssey],page136:

     Inferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.

ferial (pluralferials)

1. (ecclesiastical) Aferia.

• A-lifer,failer,farlie,fraile

• IPA^(key): [feˈʁi̯aːl]
• Hyphenation:fe‧ri‧al

• Audio(Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes:-aːl

ferial (strong nominative masculine singularferialer,not comparable)

1. (Austria, dated, relational)holiday

• Ferialjob
• Ferialpraktikum
• Ferialpraxis

• “ferial” inDuden online

• feriall,feryal,feryall,feryalle,fferyel

Borrowed fromMedieval Latinfēriālis; equivalent toferie(“weekday”) +‎-al.

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɛːriˈaːl/,/ˈfɛːrial/

ferial

1. (chiefly Late Middle English)ferial(pertaining to an ordinary day)

• English:ferial

• “fēriāl,adj.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

ferial m (oblique and nominative feminine singularferiale)

1. ferial(pertaining to a holiday)

• IPA^(key): /feˈɾjal/[feˈɾjal]
• Rhymes:-al
• Syllabification:fe‧rial

ferial m orf (masculine and feminine pluralferiales)

1. ferial, on aweekday

• “ferial”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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