infesto
التعريفات والمعاني
== Esperanto ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /inˈfesto/
Rhymes: -esto
Syllabification: in‧fes‧to
=== Noun ===
infesto (accusative singular infeston, plural infestoj, accusative plural infestojn)
infestation
== Italian ==
=== Verb ===
infesto
first-person singular present indicative of infestare
=== Anagrams ===
festino, festoni
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From īnfestus (“hostile, unsafe”) + -ō (denominal verb suffix).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈfɛs.tɔ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈfɛs.to]
=== Verb ===
īnfestō (present infinitive īnfestāre, perfect active īnfestāvī, supine īnfestātum); first conjugation
to vex (a person) repeatedly, trouble, harass, molest (also used of adverse physical effects, circumstances, Fortune)
Synonyms: turbō, perturbō, disturbō, percieō, concieō, cieō, fatīgō, sollicitō, agitō, stimulō, agō, peragō, angō, moveō, concitō, concitō, versō, ūrō, ēvertō
to make (a place) unsafe by repeated attacks; to infest
to have a bad effect on, to injure, damage, impair
Synonyms: sauciō, mulcō, noceō, vulnerō, secō, feriō, laedō, dēterō, atterō
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
īnfestātiō
īnfestātor
==== Related terms ====
īnfestē
īnfestus
==== Descendants ====
Catalan: infestar
English: infest
French: infester
Galician: infestar
Italian: infestare
Portuguese: infestar
Spanish: infestar
=== Adjective ===
īnfestō
dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of īnfestus
=== References ===
“infestō” on page 986 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “īnfestus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 303
=== Further reading ===
“infesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“infesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“infesto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: -ɛstu, -ɛʃtu
Hyphenation: in‧fes‧to
=== Etymology 1 ===
Borrowed from Latin īnfestus.
==== Adjective ====
infesto (feminine infesta, masculine plural infestos, feminine plural infestas)
hostile
===== Related terms =====
infestado
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
infesto
first-person singular present indicative of infestar
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“infesto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Verb ===
infesto
first-person singular present indicative of infestar