Pest

== 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. Coordinate term: Buda A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest. ==== Translations ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== === Anagrams === EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step- == German == === Etymology 1 === 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 ==== IPA(key): /pɛst/ Rhymes: -ɛst ==== Noun ==== Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten) (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod (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 Synonyms: Seuche, Plage Ölpest ― oil spill Drogenpest ― drug plague (figurative, informal) anything terrible or odious ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== Pestilenz === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/ ==== Proper noun ==== Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest) Pest (a quarter in Budapest, Hungary) Pest (a county of Hungary) === Further reading === “Pest”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “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 == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”), from Proto-Slavic *peťь. === 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 ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === == Hunsrik == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpʰeʃt/ Rhymes: -eʃt Syllabification: Pest === Noun === Pest f plague === Further reading === Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Pest”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch