haste

See also: Haste and hasté

English

Etymology

Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift / heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪst/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪst

Noun

haste (usually uncountable, plural hastes)

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

   We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 12:8:

     The king's business required haste.

   • 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:

     There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.

2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 116:11:

     I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Derived terms

• great haste makes great waste
• hassle
• hasteful
• hasteless
• hastely
• haste makes waste
• hasten
• hastily
• hastiness
• hastish
• hasty
• in haste
• make haste
• make haste slowly
• more haste, less speed
• overhaste
• posthaste, post haste

Translations

speed, swiftness, dispatch

• Azerbaijani: tələsiklik, qaçaqaç
• Bulgarian: бързина (bg) f (bǎrzina), бързане n (bǎrzane)
• Catalan: pressa (ca) f
• Czech: spěch (cs) m
• Danish: hast c
• Esperanto: hasto (eo)
• French: hâte (fr) f
• German: Eile (de) f, Hast (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: σπουδή f (spoudḗ)

• Hungarian: sietség (hu)
• Ingrian: kippu, kiire
• Irish: dithneas m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەلە (pele)

• Latgalian: skuba f, strāpuošona f, drystuošona f
• Latin: celeritas f, festinatio, properantia, festinantia, concitus m
• Old Polish: śpiech
• Ottoman Turkish: عجله (ʼacele)
• Plautdietsch: Haust f
• Polish: pośpiech (pl) m
• Portuguese: pressa (pt)
• Romanian: grabă (ro) f
• Russian: спе́шка (ru) f (spéška)
• Scottish Gaelic: cabhag f, deann f
• Spanish: prisa (es) f, premura (es), acucia (es) f, priesa (es) f, apuro (es) m
• Swedish: brådska (sv) c
• Ukrainian: поспіх m (pospix)
• Walloon: håsse (wa) f

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• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} berrn-berrn

Verb

haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:

     Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
   • 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)‎^[1]:

     The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.

   • 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes‎^[2]:

     He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.

   • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present‎^[3]:

     Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 133:

     Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.

Synonyms

• (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry

Derived terms

• unhasted
• unhasting

Anagrams

• ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /has̺te/ [has̺.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /as̺te/ [as̺.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -as̺te, -e
• Hyphenation: has‧te

Noun

haste inan

1. Verbal noun of hasi (“to begin”); beginning

   Synonyms: hasiera, hastapen

Declension

Declension of haste (inan V-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	haste	hastea	hasteak	hasteok
ergative	hastek	hasteak	hasteek	hasteok
dative	hasteri	hasteari	hasteei	hasteoi
genitive	hasteren	hastearen	hasteen	hasteon
comitative	hasterekin	hastearekin	hasteekin	hasteokin
causative	hasterengatik	hastearengatik	hasteengatik	hasteongatik
benefactive	hasterentzat	hastearentzat	hasteentzat	hasteontzat
instrumental	hastez	hasteaz	hasteez	hasteotaz
innesive	hastetan	hastean	hasteetan	hasteotan
locative	hastetako	hasteko	hasteetako	hasteotako
allative	hastetara	hastera	hasteetara	hasteotara
terminative	hastetaraino	hasteraino	hasteetaraino	hasteotaraino
directive	hastetarantz	hasterantz	hasteetarantz	hasteotarantz
destinative	hastetarako	hasterako	hasteetarako	hasteotarako
ablative	hastetatik	hastetik	hasteetatik	hasteotatik
partitive	hasterik	—	—	—
prolative	hastetzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “haste”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “haste”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦastɛ]
• Rhymes: -astɛ

Verb

haste (imperative)

1. second-person plural imperative of hasit

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaste/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aste
• Hyphenation: has‧te

Adverb

haste

1. hastily

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhastə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: has‧te
• Homophone: hasste

Verb

haste

1. inflection of hasten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Contraction

haste

1. (colloquial) contraction of hast +‎ du

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French haste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːtə/

Noun

haste f (plural hastes)

1. haste, speed

Descendants

• French: hâte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

haste (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative haste/hast)

1. alternative form of hasta

Old French

Alternative forms

• hast, ast

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”).

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhastə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈhaːtə/

Noun

haste oblique singular, f (oblique plural hastes, nominative singular haste, nominative plural hastes)

1. urgency, haste, speed

Derived terms

• haster
• hasteier
• hastece, hastance
• hastif

Descendants

• Middle French: haste
  • French: hâte
• Walloon: hausse (Forrières), håsse (Liégeois)
• → Middle Dutch: haest, haeste, haste, hast (reborrowing)
  • Dutch: haast
    • Afrikaans: haas
  • → West Flemish: hoast
  • → Middle Low German: hāst
    • → Danish: hast
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: hast
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hast
    • → German: Hast
    • → Swedish: hast
• → Middle English: haste, hast
  • English: haste

Portuguese

Etymology

From hasta.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: has‧te

Noun

haste f (plural hastes)

1. pole
2. (botany) stem, stalk

Derived terms

• hastear

Further reading

• “haste”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “haste”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025