chest
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-Germanic *kistō (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kistē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”). Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).
Alternative forms[edit]
- chist (obsolete)
Noun[edit]
chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- The clothes are kept in a chest.
- (obsolete) A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- You can take the money from the chest.
- A chest of drawers.
- (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
- She had a sudden pain in her chest.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest (the front of one's body).
- He scored with a chest into the goal.
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Verb[edit]
chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)
- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, BBC:
- Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.
- 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, BBC:
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).
Noun[edit]
chest (plural chests)
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Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an old compound, whose constituents are que- (see ecco, Latin eccum) and Latin istum, accusative masculine singular of the pronoun iste.
Pronoun[edit]
chest m (f cheste, m plural chescj, f plural chestis)
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Adjective[edit]
chest m
- (Picardy) Alternative form of cist.
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