tosten

German

Verb

tosten

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person plural preterite of tosen.
2. (deprecated template usage) Third-person plural preterite of tosen.
3. (deprecated template usage) First-person plural subjunctive II of tosen.
4. (deprecated template usage) Third-person plural subjunctive II of tosen.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• toste, tost, toost, tooste, toostyn

Etymology

From Old French toster, from Latin tostus, from torreō, from Proto-Italic *torzeō, from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːstən/

Verb

tosten

1. (rare) To toast; to brown bread.
2. (rare) To burn or heat.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tosten (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) tosten, toste
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	toste	tosted
2nd-person singular	tostest	tostedest
3rd-person singular	tosteth	tosted
subjunctive singular	toste
imperative singular		—
plural1	tosten, toste	tosteden, tostede
imperative plural	tosteth, toste	—
participles	tostynge, tostende	tosted, ytosted

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

• tost

Descendants

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

References

• “tōsten (v.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.