different between ferie vs faerie

English

Etymology

Old French ferie, from Latin ferie (“holidays”). See fair.

Noun

ferie (plural feries)

1. (obsolete) A holiday.

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Anagrams

• firee, ifere

Danish

Etymology

From Latin f?riae (“festival, rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fe???i?], [?fe???j?]

Noun

ferie c (singular definite ferien, plural indefinite ferier)

1. holiday
2. vacation
3. recess

Declension

Further reading

• “ferie” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ferie” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
• ferie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Italian

Noun

ferie f

1. plural of feria
2. holidays, vacation

Anagrams

• fiere

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin feriae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?rj?/
• Rhymes: -e?rj?

Noun

ferie m (definite singular ferien, indefinite plural ferier, definite plural feriene)

1. vacation (US), holiday (UK)

Derived terms

Related terms

• feriere

References

• “ferie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin feriae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?rj?/
• Rhymes: -e?rj?

Noun

ferie m (definite singular ferien, indefinite plural feriar, definite plural feriane)

1. vacation, holiday

Derived terms

• familieferie
• ferieby

Related terms

• feriere, feriera

References

• “ferie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin f?riae (“holiday, festival”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r?.j?/

Noun

ferie nvir

1. winter vacation
2. winter school break

Declension

Further reading

• ferie in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ferie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Verb

ferie

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of feriar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of feriar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of feriar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of feriar.

English

Alternative forms

• færie (archaic, nonstandard)

Etymology

From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.

Noun

faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)

1. Archaic spelling of fairy.
2. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

References

• Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• feriae

Old French

Alternative forms

• faierie

Etymology

fae +? -erie

Noun

faerie f

1. the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)

Derived terms

• French: féerie
  • ? English: féerie
• ? Middle English: fairye
  • English: fairy, fairie, faerie, faery
  • Scots: fairy, faerie, faery