/ˈfejɾa/, [ˈfej.ɾɐ]
OrixeFrom Old Galician-Portuguese feira, from Late Latin feria (“festival, holiday”), from Latin feriae, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”).
Cognate with Portuguese feira, Spanish feria, French foire, Italian fiera,
Sicilian fera and English fair.
- femininemarket; fair
“ordenavan que a dita feyra de San Martiño que fose franca da mañán luns, que serán quatorse dias deste dito ano, ata quinse dias primeiro segentes, et en estes quinse días que todas las personas et me” — they ordered that said fair of Saint Martin to be tax-free from tomorrow Monday, fourteen days of this year [sic], for fifteen next days, and that these fifteen days that every person and merchant and
- feminine, figurativelyconfusion, disorder, din
- dated, femininedesignation for a weekday in Galician, e.g. corta feira (“Wednesday”, literally “fourth weekday”)
Formasfeiras(plural)