festīnō — meaning in English

English meaning

• hasten verb To move or act quickly, or to make something happen sooner.
• hurry verb To move or act with speed, or to make someone or something move faster.
• rush verb To hurry or do something very quickly, sometimes carelessly.

Senses

festīnō is used for these senses in English:

• hasten (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
• hurry (intransitive) To do things quickly.
• hurry up (emphatic, ambitransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
• make haste (intransitive, dated) To hurry or hasten.
• rush (transitive, or, intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.

hurry — full definition

1. verb To move or act with speed, or to make someone or something move faster.
2. noun The state of needing to do something quickly; urgency.

Related Latin words