mist

See also: Mist and MiST

English

Etymology

From Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *migʰ-, *migʰ-lo- (“drizzle, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *meygʰ- (“to flicker, blink, be dark; cloud, mist”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪst/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪst
  • Homophone: missed

Noun

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

  1. (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
    It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
  2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
    There was an oily mist on the lens.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
    • Dryden
      His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

  1. To form mist.
    It's misting this morning.
  2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
    I mist my tropical plants every morning.
  3. To cover with a mist.
    The lens was misted.
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  4. (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
    My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

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Anagrams

Danish

Verb

mist

  1. imperative of miste

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪst/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

mist m (plural misten, diminutive mistje n)

  1. fog, mist

Verb

mist

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of missen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of missen
  3. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of misten
  4. imperative of misten

Anagrams

Ingrian

Pronoun

mist

  1. whence

Latvian

Verb

mist intr., 1st conj., pres. mītu, mīt, mīt, past mitu

  1. to live
  2. to dwell
  3. to reside

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”); see myst for more information.

Noun

mist (plural mistes)

  1. Alternative form of myst.

References

Etymology 2

From mysty (“symbolic, figurative”).

Noun

mist (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of myst.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mist

  1. imperative of miste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mist

  1. past participle of missa
  2. past participle of mista
  3. imperative of mista

Swedish

Noun

mist c

  1. fog (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision)

Declension

Declension of mist 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative mist misten — —
Genitive mists mistens — —
  • mistlur

Verb

mist

  1. imperative of mista.
  2. past participle of mista.
  3. supine of mista.
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