Other forms: fiestas
A fiesta is a lively outdoor festival, in the Spanish tradition. The village fiesta, a week-long fiesta, dance at the fiesta.
In Spain and Latin America most are tied to a saint's day, and the town closes for it. The word is the same as feast and as fete, all from the Latin for a festival, which reached English three separate times by three different roads.
1nounfiestaA lively outdoor festival, in the Spanish tradition.
“The whole village danced in the streets during the summer fiesta.”
fiesta is a festival.
Spanish fiesta comes from Latin festa, festivals. Feast, fete and fest are all the same word.
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English, today
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Spanish fiesta, from Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”). a doublet of feast and fest and fete.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA