pacoste

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пакость (pakostĭ, madness, tyranny), from Proto-Slavic *pakostь (vicissitude). Cognates include Russian пакость (pakostʹ), Ukrainian па́кість (pákistʹ), Belarusian па́косць (pákoscʹ), Bulgarian па́кост (pákost, harm), Serbo-Croatian pȁkōst (malice), Slovene pákost (vicissitude) (tonal orthography), Czech раkоsť (filth), Polish раkоść, Upper Sorbian раkоsć, Lower Sorbian раkоsć.

Noun

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pacoste f (plural pacoste)

  1. vicissitude
  2. (figurative) person causing problems

Declension

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