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Pest

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See also: pest and pěst

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pest

  1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
    Coordinate terms: Buda, Óbuda
  2. 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:
      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.
  3. A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

Coordinate terms

counties of Hungaryedit

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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/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten)

  1. (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague
    Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod
    Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten.
    The plague devastated especially towns and cities.
  2. (in compounds) any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals
    Hyponyms: Geflügelpest, Hasenpest, Rinderpest, Schweinepest
  3. (figurative) anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster
    Synonyms: Seuche, Plage
    Ölpest ― oil spill
    Drogenpest ― drug plague
  4. (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
Declension of Pest [feminine]
More information singular, plural ...

1Rare.

Derived terms
  • Pestilenz

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest)

  1. Pest (a quarter in Budapest, Hungary)
  2. Pest (a county of Hungary)

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Hungarian

 Pest vármegye on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”), from Proto-Slavic *peťь.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pest

  1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
  2. The corresponding part of current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
    Coordinate term: Buda
  3. (informal, loosely) ellipsis of Budapest
  4. an administrative county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest, often meant to exclude the capital itself.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

Derived terms

Compound words

See also

counties of Hungary: Magyarország vármegyéiedit

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʰeʃt/
  • Rhymes: -eʃt
  • Syllabification: Pest

Noun

Pest f

  1. plague

Further reading

  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Pest”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

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