Rest

See also: rest, REST, rešt, rest., and Rest.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛst/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian resto, from restare (“to remain”), from Latin restō.

Noun

Rest m (strong, genitive Restes or Rests, plural Reste, diminutive Restchen n)

1. rest, remainder, remnant
   • 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 41:

     Die kleine Stutzuhr auf dem Kamin, ein letzter Rest der Habe meiner Eltern, schlug zehn.

     The small bracket clock on the chimney, a last remnant of the belongings of my parents, chimed ten.

2. (chemistry) radical

Declension

Declension of Rest [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Rest	die	Reste
genitive	eines	des	Restes, Rests	der	Reste
dative	einem	dem	Rest, Reste1	den	Resten
accusative	einen	den	Rest	die	Reste

¹Now rare, see notes.

Synonyms

• Rückstand
• Übriggebliebenes

Derived terms

• Anstandsrest
• den Rest geben
• Divisionsrest
• Essensrest
• Kohlenwasserstoffrest
• Restauflage
• Restbetrag
• Resteverwertung
• Restfeuchte
• Resthoffnung
• restlich
• restlos
• Restmenge
• Restmüll
• Restposten
• Reststoff
• Resturlaub
• Restvermögen
• Speiserest
• Teilungsrest
• Überrest

Descendants

• → Kashubian: reszta
• → Polish: reszta, resta (Middle Polish)
  • → Belarusian: рэ́шта (réšta)
  • → Ukrainian: ре́шта (réšta)
• → Silesian: reszta

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Rest m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Rests or (with an article) Rest, feminine genitive Rest, plural Rests)

1. a surname

Further reading

• “Rest” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Rest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Rest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rest” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reʃt/

Noun

Rest m (plural Rester)

1. remainder, remnant

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Rest”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch