skaists

== Latvian == === Etymology === This word results from the merging of two different lines: (a) a derivation from the same stem as skaidrs (“clear”) (q.v.): *skaid-tas > *skaistas > skaists; the older “clear, pure” meaning can be found in examples up to the beginning of the 19th century; and (b) the past participle of kaist (“to be hot, to glow”), with an extra initial s from a former reflexive marker (compare apskaisties (“to get angry”) from ap-s-kaist-ies). The meaning probably changed as follows: “warm, hot, heated” > “red, flushed” > “bright, attractive, beautiful.” The older “red, flushed” meaning can be found in older sources and in folk tales (skaistiem vaigiem “with flushed cheeks”). Cognates include Lithuanian skaistùs, dialectal skáistas (“bright, light, clear, glittering, sparkling, beautiful, pure, chaste”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [skāīsts] === Adjective === skaists (definite skaistais, comparative skaistāks, superlative visskaistākais, adverb skaisti) beautiful (having beauty; corresponding to certain aesthetic ideals, provoking certain aesthetic feelings) skaista mūzika, glezna ― beautiful music, painting skaists stāsts ― beautiful story skaista seja, balss ― beautiful face, voice skaists dārzs ― beautiful garden skaists (vājais, daiļais) dzimums ― the beautiful (weak, graceful) sex (i.e., women) beautiful, pleasant (which causes, gives pleasure) skaistas atmiņas ― beautiful memories skaisti apsveikuma vārdi ― beautiful words of greeting skaists laiks, rīts ― beautiful weather, morning beautiful, good (having good moral value, being socially useful) skaista dvēsele ― beautiful soul skaistas domas ― beautiful thoughts skaista rīcība ― beautiful action skaisti nodzīvots mūžs ― a beautifully lived life (of animals, plants) beautiful, good (well kept, having desirable characteristics, e.g., for breeding) skaists suns ― beautiful dog skaisti kartupeļi ― beautiful potatoes ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== daiļš glīts grezns krāšņs (colloquial) smuks ==== Antonyms ==== neglīts ==== Derived terms ==== skaistulis, skaistule skaistums === References ===