pest
English
Etymology
From Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
pest (plural pests)
- (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
- Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
- An annoying person, a nuisance.
- An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
- An invasive weed.
Synonyms
- (creature): bug
Related terms
- garden pest
- pester
- pesting
- pesthole
- pesthouse
- pesticidal, pesticide
- pestiferous
- pestilence, pestilent, pestilential
Translations
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Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
pest f (uncountable)
Derived terms
Verb
pest
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
- (deprecated template usage) 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]
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
pest f or m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)
- a plague
- sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
- velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils
Derived terms
References
- “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
pest m (definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f (definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)
- a plague
- sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
- velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils
Derived terms
References
- “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pęstь
Pronunciation
Noun
pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pęstь. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian пест, pest, Slovak päsť, Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “middle part of the hand”) and запя́стье (zapjástʹje), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) пестник (pestnik), песник (pesnik), пестница (pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ), English fist, German Faust.
Pronunciation
Noun
pẹ̑st f
Inflection
Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent | |||
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nom. sing. | pést | ||
gen. sing. | pestí | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
pést | pestí | pestí |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
pestí | pestí | pestí |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
pêsti | pestéma | pestém |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
pést | pestí | pestí |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
pêsti | pestéh | pestéh |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
pestjó | pestéma | pestmí |
Derived terms
Swedish
Noun
pest c
Related terms
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛst
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Danish terms derived from French
- Danish terms derived from Latin
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Diseases
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- nb:Diseases
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- nn:Diseases
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Regional Serbo-Croatian
- Serbo-Croatian literary terms
- Slovene terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Slovene terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Slovene 1-syllable words
- Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovene lemmas
- Slovene nouns
- Slovene feminine nouns
- sl:Anatomy
- Slovene feminine i-stem nouns
- Slovene feminine i-stem nouns with long mixed accent
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns