pest

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.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

pest (plural pests)

1. (now rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
   • 2020 March 24, Qing Zhu, Zhang Ming, “Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Faces Plague of Locusts”, in Minghui‎:

     From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, pests and famines are reflections of the current administration’s lack of moral values and deviation from divine will. The head of the administration (the emperor in the past) would then issue an edict to sincerely repent and correct his wrongdoings.

2. Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
3. An annoying person, a nuisance.
4. An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
5. An invasive weed.

• (creature): bug

• pester
• pesting
• pesthole
• pesthouse
• pesticidal, pesticide
• pestiferous
• pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

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

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pest f (uncountable)

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

• Negerhollands: pest
• → Indonesian: pes
• → Japanese: ペスト (pesuto)
• → Papiamentu: peste

pest

1. inflection of pesten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/

pest f (Arabic spelling پەست)

1. pressure, oppression

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “pest”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 442

From Latin pestis.

pest f or 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

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

• “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin pestis.

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

• byllepest
• forpeste
• harepest
• musepest
• pestepidemi
• Pesta (“humanoid personification of the plague”)
• tinnpest

• “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pęstь.

• IPA^(key): /pêːst/

pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

1. (regional, literary) fist

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.

• IPA^(key): /péːst/

pẹ̑st f

1. (anatomy) fist

• pésten

Ultimately from Latin pestis.

pest c

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

• blodpest
• böldpest
• lungpest
• pest och pina
• sky som pesten
• välja mellan pest och kolera

• pest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

pest

1. a perfectivizing particle used with verbs