pest

Etymology

From Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest (plural pests)

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
3. An invasive weed
4. An annoying person.

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

Etymology

From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

Noun

pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

1. (medicine) plague
2. (figuratively) pestilence

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest f (uncountable)

1. A plague, pest, pestilence.
2. A specific bovine plague
3. An obnoxious person

Verb

pest

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
2. imperative of pesten

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest f, m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

References

• “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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)

1. a plague

   sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

References

• “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pêːst/

Noun

pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

1. (regional, literary) fist

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): /ˈpéːst/
• Tonal orthography: pẹ̑st

Noun

pést f (genitive pestí, nominative plural pestí)

1. (anatomy) fist

Noun

pest c

1. A plague
2. A pest; something deeply annoying