Pest
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Etymology edit
From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).
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Pest
- (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
- 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[1]:
- 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.
- A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.
Translations edit
area of Budapest — see also Budapest
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Etymology 1 edit
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).
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Noun edit
Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten)
- (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague
- Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod
- Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten.
- The plague devastated especially towns and cities.
- (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
- (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 edit
Declension of Pest [feminine]
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Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest)
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
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Proper noun edit
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 edit
| 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 | — |
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Pest f