Pest
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pest
- (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
- The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
- Coordinate term: Buda
- 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times[1]:
- On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.
- A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.
Translations
[edit]area of Budapest — see also Budapest
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]16th century, from Latin pestis, in part through Middle French peste. Popular shortening of Middle High German pestilencie (14th c.), from related Latin pestilentia, may also have contributed (though this is impossible to prove).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten)
- (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague
- Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod
- Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten.
- The plague devastated especially towns and cities.
- (in compounds) any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals
- Hyponyms: Geflügelpest, Hasenpest, Rinderpest, Schweinepest
- (figurative) anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster
- (figurative, informal) anything terrible or odious
- die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera
- a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea
- (literally, “between the plague and cholera”)
- Sowas hasse ich wie die Pest.
- That’s something I really loathe.
- (literally, “something I hate like the plague.”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Pest [feminine]
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest)
Further reading
[edit]- “Pest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Pest, Krankheit” in Duden online
- “Pest, Stadtteil, Budapest” in Duden online
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pest
- (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
- The corresponding part of current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
- Coordinate term: Buda
- (informal, loosely) Ellipsis of Budapest.
- An administrative county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest, often meant to exclude the capital itself.
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Pest | — |
accusative | Pestet | — |
dative | Pestnek | — |
instrumental | Pesttel | — |
causal-final | Pestért | — |
translative | Pestté | — |
terminative | Pestig | — |
essive-formal | Pestként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Pestben | — |
superessive | Pesten | — |
adessive | Pestnél | — |
illative | Pestbe | — |
sublative | Pestre | — |
allative | Pesthez | — |
elative | Pestből | — |
delative | Pestről | — |
ablative | Pesttől | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Pesté | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Pestéi | — |
Possessive forms of Pest | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Pestem | — |
2nd person sing. | Pested | — |
3rd person sing. | Pestje | — |
1st person plural | Pestünk | — |
2nd person plural | Pestetek | — |
3rd person plural | Pestjük | — |
Derived terms
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Hunsrik
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pest f
Further reading
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