different between festival vs ritual

English

Etymology

From Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?st?v?l/

Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
   • Deuteronomy 16:16 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

     ¹⁶ All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

2. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4. (Caribbean, Jamaican) fried cornbread

Related terms

• festal
• festive
• festivity
• festivities

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Czech

Etymology

From English festival

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?st?val]
• Hyphenation: fe?s?ti?val

Noun

festival m inan

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Declension

Further reading

• festival in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• festival in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti?v?l/
• Hyphenation: fes?ti?val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. A festival (festive event or gathering).

Derived terms

• dorpsfestival
• festivalganger
• festivalisering
• festivalpubliek
• filmfestival
• kunstfestival
• muziekfestival
• songfestival
• theaterfestival

French

Etymology

From English festival, from Old French festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further reading

• “festival” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti.val/, /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin f?st?v?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f??.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

Romanian

Etymology

From French festival.

Noun

festival n (plural festivaluri)

1. festival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. festival

Declension

See also

• praznik

Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

1. festival

Synonyms

• ?enlik

English

Alternative forms

• rituall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin adjective r?tu?lis, from noun r?tuum (“rite”), + adjective suffix -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.t?u.?l/

Adjective

ritual (comparative more ritual, superlative most ritual)

1. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.

Derived terms

• ritually

Translations

Noun

ritual (countable and uncountable, plural rituals)

1. rite; a repeated set of actions

Derived terms

• ritualisation, ritualization
• ritualise, ritualize
• ritualist
• ritualistic
• ritually

Translations

Anagrams

• litura

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ritualis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ri.tu?al/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ritual (masculine and feminine plural rituals)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituals)

1. ritual

Related terms

• ritu

Further reading

• “ritual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ritual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ritual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ritual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??itu?æ?l]

Noun

ritual n (singular definite ritualet, plural indefinite ritualer)

1. ritual

   Synonym: ritus

Declension

References

• “ritual” in Den Danske Ordbog

Ladin

Pronunciation

Adjective

ritual m (feminine singular rituala, masculine plural rituai, feminine plural rituales)

1. ritual

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ritualis, from ritus

Noun

ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual or ritualer, definite plural rituala or ritualene)

1. ritual

References

• “ritual” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ritualis, from ritus

Noun

ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual, definite plural rituala)

1. ritual

References

• “ritual” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?twa?/

Adjective

ritual m or f (plural rituais, comparable)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituais)

1. ritual

Romanian

Etymology

From French rituel or Italian rituale.

Noun

ritual n (plural rituali)

1. ritual

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rit?a?l/
• Hyphenation: ri?tu?al

Noun

ritù?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. ritual

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?twal/, [ri?t?wal]

Adjective

ritual (plural rituales)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituales)

1. rite

Derived terms

• ritualismo
• ritualista

Further reading

• “ritual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.