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Another Calendar term, but in the Church Calendar, it has exactly the opposite meaning it carried in the Roman Civil Calendar, where it meant a feast day on which the law courts were closed.
The Harvard Dictionary of Music explains the origin of the term `feria as 'the reverse of the original meaning of L. feria, i.e., festival day. The reversal came about by extending the use of the word from Sunday to the other days, Sunday being named feria prima, Monday feria secunda, Tuesday feria tertia, etc.'
Since in ecclesiastical Latin the names of Sunday and Saturday do not contain the word feria and are called respectively dominica and sabbatum, some use the term feria "to denote the days of the week with the exception of Sunday and Saturday", in spite of the official definition given above and the actual usage in official liturgical books.
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