tast

See also: Tast and tašt

English

Noun

tast (plural tasts)

1. Obsolete spelling of taste.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎^[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 1-3:

     the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast / Brought Death into the World

Anagrams

• stat, Tats, Tsat, TATs, tats, atts, -stat

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from tastar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtast]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

tast m (plural tasts or tastos)

1. tasting, trying (of food, wine)

   Synonym: degustació

2. flavour, taste

   Synonyms: gust, sabor

Derived terms

• tastet

Further reading

• “tast”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Taste, from Italian tasto.

Noun

tast

1. a key (button on some electronic device)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tast

1. imperative of taste

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tast m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. touch (tactile sense)

Derived terms

• tastzin

Verb

tast

1. inflection of tasten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Elfdalian

Etymology

Attested in 1622 as taste, of uncertain origin:

• Contraction of Old Norse þar (“when”) + relative pronoun es + conjunction at (“that”) > *tarst > tast. Old Norse þar corresponds to modern dar, and cf. the form dest attested elsewhere in Ovansiljan, where the cognate to dar is der.
• Contraction of elements corresponding to Old Norse þá (“then”) + relative pronoun es, with a final -t perhaps from an enclitic Old Norse at (“that”) or til (> te), or perhaps secondary, as in welest (cognate to Old Swedish vælis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑst/

Conjunction

tast

1. until
   • 1622, Andreas Johannis Prytz, Comoedia om Konung Gustaf then första 1622:

     Wiljom gäma bort oss, taste ahn gohr iädå.

     We want to hide, until he goes away.

   • 1985, Hjalmar Larsson, Kunundsin kumb: lesubuok ǫ dalska:

     […]e’ war landsöwdindsin sjuov so add dsiwid feslae, wen so uld dsjäros tast kunundsin uld kumo.

     It was the governor himself who had suggested what should be done until the king would come.

Preposition

tast

1. until [with accusative]
   • 1985, Hjalmar Larsson, Kunundsin kumb: lesubuok ǫ dalska:

     Dier uld wår i Öwdalim fro lovda’n tast um sunda’n, do dier uld dsjäwå sig åw.

     They were going to be in Övdaln from Saturday until Sunday, when they were planning on leaving.

References

• Stig Björklund (1956), “Älvdalsmålet i Andreas Johannis Prytz' Comoedia om Konung Gustaf then första 1622”, in Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv‎^[2], volume 79:Appendix, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, archived from the original on 16 July 2020

Estonian

Pronoun

tast

1. elative singular of ta

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tasto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtast/
• Rhymes: -ast

Noun

tast m (plural tasti)

1. feel, touch
2. (music) key

Related terms

• tastiera (tastatura)
• ttastja

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian tasto, via German Taste.

Noun

tast m (definite singular tasten, indefinite plural taster, definite plural tastene)

1. a key (on a keyboard)

   Et vanlig tastatur har 105 taster.

   A normal keyboard has 105 keys.

Derived terms

• mellomromstast

Related terms

• tastatur
• taste

Etymology 2

Verb

tast

1. imperative of taste

References

• “tast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian tasto, via German Taste.

Noun

tast m (definite singular tasten, indefinite plural tastar, definite plural tastane)

1. a key (on a keyboard)

Derived terms

• mellomromstast

Related terms

• tastatur

References

• “tast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tь̏stь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tíśtis, from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâst/

Noun

tȁst m anim (Cyrillic spelling та̏ст)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) father-in-law (one's wife's father)

   Synonym: (Croatia) punac

Declension

Declension of tast

	singular	plural
nominative	tast	tastovi
genitive	tasta	tastova
dative	tastu	tastovima
accusative	tasta	tastove
vocative	taste	tastovi
locative	tastu	tastovima
instrumental	tastom	tastovima

Related terms

nouns

• tašta
• tazbina

See also

• svèkar

Further reading

• “tast”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tьstь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /táːst/

Noun

tȃst m anim (female equivalent tášča)

1. father-in-law

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	tást
gen. sing.	tásta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	tást	tásta	tásti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	tásta	tástov	tástov
dative (dajȃlnik)	tástu	tástoma	tástom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	tásta	tásta	táste
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	tástu	tástih	tástih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	tástom	tástoma	tásti

Further reading

• “tast”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “tast”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references