pest

See also Pest

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest (plural pests)

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

   Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

Synonyms

• (creature) bug

Related terms

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

Translations

plague

Catalan: pesta (ca) f., plaga (ca) f. Dutch: pest (nl), plaag (nl)

French: peste (fr) Walloon: pesse (wa)

annoying creature

Croatian: štetòčina (hr) f., štȅtnīk (hr) m. Danish: skadedyr (da) Dutch: pest (nl), plaag (nl)

Finnish: tuhoeläin (fi) Polish: szkodnik (pl) m. Volapük: minimil (vo)

annoying person

Croatian: dosadnjáković (hr) m., dosàdnjāk (hr) m. Danish: plage (da), plageånd (da), pestilens (da)

Dutch: lastpak (nl) n. Finnish: maanvaiva, kiusankappale, kiusanhenki

Anagrams

• pets
• sept, Sept.
• step

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

Noun

pest c. (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

1. (pathology) plague
2. (figuratively) pestilence

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest c. (uncountable)

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

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

Verb

pest

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten.
2. imperative of pesten.

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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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pêːst/

Noun

pȇst f. (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

1. (regional, literary) fist

Declension

    declension of pest

	singular	plural
nominative	pȇst	pesti
genitive	pesti	péstī
dative	pesti	pestima
accusative	pest	pesti
vocative	pesti	pesti
locative	pesti	pestima
instrumental	pesti/pešću	pestima

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA: /peːst/

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. Compare, Ancient Greek πυγμή, Old High German fust ( > German Faust).

Noun

pést f. (dual pesti, plural pesti)

1. (anatomy) fist

Derived terms

• pésten

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Swedish

Noun

pest c.

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

Related terms

• pest och pina
• välja mellan pest och kolera