fasti

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fāstī.

Noun

fasti pl (plural only)

1. The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
2. Records or registers of important events.

Coordinate terms

• nefasti

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fasti”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Faits, Fiats, fiats

Esperanto

Etymology

From English fast, German fasten, Yiddish פֿאַסטן (fastn), all from Proto-Germanic *fastāną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfasti]

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• Rhymes: -asti
• Hyphenation: fas‧ti

Verb

fasti (present fastas, past fastis, future fastos, conditional fastus, volitive fastu)

1. (intransitive) to fast

Conjugation

Conjugation of fasti

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		fastas		fastis		fastos
active participle		fastanta	fastantaj	fastinta	fastintaj	fastonta	fastontaj
	acc.	fastantan	fastantajn	fastintan	fastintajn	fastontan	fastontajn
nominal active participle		fastanto	fastantoj	fastinto	fastintoj	fastonto	fastontoj
	acc.	fastanton	fastantojn	fastinton	fastintojn	fastonton	fastontojn
adverbial active participle		fastante		fastinte		fastonte

infinitive		fasti						imperative		fastu						conditional		fastus

Derived terms

• fasto

Descendants

• Ido: fastar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.sti/
• Rhymes: -asti
• Hyphenation: fà‧sti

Noun

fasti m

1. plural of fasto

Anagrams

• sfati

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːs.tiː/, [ˈfäːs̠t̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ti/, [ˈfäst̪i]

Noun

fāstī

1. inflection of fāstus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

References

• “fasti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fasti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the calender (list of fasts and festivals): fasti
    

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Etymology

From English fast or Dutch vast.

Adjective

fasti

1. stuck, tight, secured
2. fixed, unwavering