Portuguese language

How to pronounce feria in Portuguese?

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Type Words
Type of weekday
Derivation ferial


in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday.
Type Words
Type of celebration, festivity