pest

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Croatian 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Declension 3 Danish 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Noun 4 Dutch 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Derived terms 4.2 Verb 4.3 References 5 Slovene 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Etymology 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Derived terms 6 Swedish 6.1 Noun 6.1.1 Related terms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle French peste (=modern French), from Latin pestis

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛst

[edit] Noun

pest (plural pests)

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
3. An annoying person.
4. (British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.

   Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

[edit] Synonyms

• (creature) bug

[edit] Related terms

• pesthole
• pesthouse
• pesticidal, pesticide
• pestiferous
• pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• pets
• step

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[edit] Croatian

[edit] Noun

pest f (plural pesti)

1. A fist

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From French peste, from Latin pestis (“‘disease, plague, pest, destruction’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

[edit] Noun

pest c. (uncountable, singular indefinite pest, singular definite pesten)

1. (pathology) plague
2. (archaic, humorous) pestilence

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

pest (plural pesten, diminutive pestje, diminutive plural pestjes)

1. A plague, pest, pestilence.
2. A specific bovine plague
3. An obnoxious person

[edit] Derived terms

• pestbacil m.
• pestblaar m. and f.
• pestbuil m. and f.
• pestepidemie f.
• pesten (verb)
• pester m.
• pesterij f.
• pestgeval n.
• pestgezwel n.
• pesthaard m.
• pesthol n.
• pesthuis n.
• pestkop m.
• pestlijder m.
• pestlucht m. and f.
• pestilent
• pestvent m.
• pestvogel m.
• pestziek

[edit] Verb

pest

1. imperative form of pesten
2. singular present imperfect forms of pesten

[edit] References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /peːst/

[edit] Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic пѧсть. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian пест/pest, Slovak päsť, Russian пясть (“‘middle part of the hand’”) and запястье, dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) пестник, песник, пестница. Cf, Ancient Greek πυγμή, Old High German fust ( > German Faust).

[edit] Noun

pést f. (dual pesti, plural pesti)

1. (anatomy) fist

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• pésten

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

pest c.

1. A plague
2. A pest; something deeply annoying

[edit] Related terms

• pest och pina