haste

English

„Haste“ or „the biologic relativity of time“

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 *haist, *haifst (“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”, adj), Old Norse heift/heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪst/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪst

Noun

haste (uncountable)

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

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

   • Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8

     The king's business required haste.

2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
   • Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11

     I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Derived terms

• haste makes waste
• hasten
• hastily

• hastiness
• hasty
• in haste

• make haste
• more haste, less speed
• 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
• French: hâte (fr) f
• German: Eile (de) f, Hast (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: σπουδή f (spoudḗ)

• Hungarian: sietség (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latgalian: skuba f, strāpuošona f, drystuošona f
• Latin: celeritas f, festinatio, properantia, festinantia, concitus m
• Old Polish: śpiech
• Polish: pośpiech (pl) m
• Portuguese: pressa (pt)
• Russian: спе́шка (ru) f (spéška)
• Scottish Gaelic: cabhag f, deann f
• Spanish: prisa (es) f, premura
• Ukrainian: поспіх m (pospix)
• Walloon: håsse (wa) f

Verb

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.

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦastɛ]
• Rhymes: -astɛ

Verb

haste (imperative)

1. second-person plural imperative of hasit

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Esperanto

Adverb

haste

1. hastily

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhastə]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: has‧te
• Homophone: hasste

Verb

haste

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of hasten.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of hasten.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of hasten.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of hasten.
5. Contraction of hast du.

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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

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Old French

Alternative forms

• hast, ast

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *haist (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”)

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
    • Middle High German: hāst
      • German: Hast
• → Middle English: haste, hast
  • English: haste

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Portuguese

Etymology

From hasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃtɨ/

Noun

haste f (plural hastes)

1. pole
2. (botany) stem, stalk

Derived terms

• hastear

Further reading

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