English Online Dictionary. What means pest? What does pest mean?
English
Etymology
In the 16th century in the sense of "pestilence" and specifically bubonic plague from Middle French peste (“pestilence”) (whence French peste). The other meanings are recorded soon after. Ultimately from Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /pɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
pest (plural pests)
- (now rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
- Any destructive insect 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
Derived terms
Related terms
- pester
- pesting
- pesthole
- pesthouse
- pesticidal, pesticide
- pestiferous
- pestilence, pestilent, pestilential
Translations
Anagrams
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-
Danish
Etymology
From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]
Noun
pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)
- (pathology) plague
- (figuratively) pestilence
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
pest f (uncountable)
- a plague, pest, pestilence
- a specific bovine plague
- an obnoxious person
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: pest
- → Indonesian: pes
- → Japanese: ペスト (pesuto)
- → Papiamentu: peste
Verb
pest
- inflection of pesten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛst/
Noun
pest f (Arabic spelling پەست)
- pressure, oppression
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “pest”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 442
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin pestis.
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
- byllepest
- forpeste
- pestepidemi
References
- “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin pestis.
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
- byllepest
- forpeste
- harepest
- musepest
- pestepidemi
- Pesta (“humanoid personification of the plague”)
- tinnpest
References
- “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pęstь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pêːst/
Noun
pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)
- (regional, literary) fist
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
- IPA(key): /péːst/
Noun
pẹ̑st f
- (anatomy) fist
Inflection
Derived terms
- pésten
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin pestis.
Noun
pest c
- A plague
- A pest; something deeply annoying
Derived terms
- blodpest
- böldpest
- lungpest
- pest och pina
- sky som pesten
- välja mellan pest och kolera
References
- pest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- pest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- pest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Tocharian B
Particle
pest
- a perfectivizing particle used with verbs