Pest
See also: pest and pěst
English
Alternative forms
- Pesth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/
- Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛʃt
- Homophone: pest
Proper noun
Pest
- (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
- Coordinate terms: Buda, Óbuda
- The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
- 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
- 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.
- Coordinate term: Buda
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Anagrams
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-
German
Etymology
From Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Audio (file)
Noun
Pest f (genitive Pest, plural Pesten)
- plague
Declension
Declension of Pest [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Pest | die | Pesten |
| genitive | einer | der | Pest | der | Pesten |
| dative | einer | der | Pest | den | Pesten |
| accusative | eine | die | Pest | die | Pesten |
Hyponyms
- Beulenpest
- Geflügelpest
- Rinderpest
- Schweinepest
Derived terms
- pestartig
Further reading
- “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
Pest as a part of the city of Budapest, marked in green
The location of Pest county on the map of Hungary
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɛʃt]
- Hyphenation: Pest
- Rhymes: -ɛʃt
Proper noun
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
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- pesti
(Compound words):
- Újpest
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰeʃt/
Noun
Pest f
- plague
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary