chest

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛst/
• (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”).

Alternative forms

• chist (obsolete)

Noun

chest (plural chests)

1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

4. A chest of drawers.
6. (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in other animals.

   Synonym: thorax

   Holonyms: torso, trunk; body

   Comeronyms: head, neck, abdomen, limbs

8. The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.

   Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk

   Comeronyms: back, dorsum

10. (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.

11. A hit or blow made with one's chest.

Synonyms

• (the thorax): breast
• (box): trunk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

Derived terms

• chest down

Etymology 2

From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).

Noun

chest (plural chests)

1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

References

Anagrams

• techs, chets, Chets, Tesch, Stech

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste (see there for cognates), from Latin eccum (“behold”) + iste (“that”). Compare Ladin chest and Romansch quest.

Pronoun

chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)

1. this

See also

• chel

Ladin

Alternative forms

• chëst

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum + iste. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.

Adjective

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)

1. this
2. (in the plural) these

Lombard

Alternative forms

• cuest (formal variant)
• quest (Western orthography)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum (deictic) +‎ iste (“that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkest/
  • IPA^(key): [ˈkɛs(t)], [ˈkes(t)]

Usage notes

When followed by a word starting with consonant, it's often pronounced without the ending /t/.

Determiner

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chestj, feminine plural cheste)

1. this

Pronoun

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chestj, feminine plural cheste)

1. this
2. this one

Synonyms

• chell chí, cuell chí

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ċeast, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).

Alternative forms

• cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛːst/
• Rhymes: -ɛːst

Noun

chest (plural chestes)

2. fighting, strife, battle
3. quarrelling, disputation
4. (rare) turmoil, discord

Descendants

• English: chest

References

• “chēst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

Etymology 2

Noun

chest

2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

Noun

chest

2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old French

Adjective

chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χɛst/

Verb

chest

1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Mutation