pest

See also: Pest and pěst

Contents

English

Etymology

From Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest (plural pests)

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. An destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock.
3. An annoying person, a nuisance.
4. An invasive weed.

Synonyms

• (creature): bug

Related terms

• pester
• pesting
• pesthole
• pesthouse
• pesticidal, pesticide
• pestiferous
• pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

Translations

plague

• Catalan: pesta f, plaga (ca) f
• Dutch: pest (nl), plaag (nl)
• French: peste (fr)
• Greek: πανούκλα (el) f (panoúkla), μάστιγα (el) f (mástiga), πληγή (el) f (pligí), λοιμός (el) m (loimós)
• Portuguese: peste (pt) f
• Romanian: pestă (ro) f

• Russian: чума́ (ru) f (čumá), мор (ru) m (mor)
• Scottish Gaelic: plàigh f
• Spanish: peste (es) f, pestilencia (es) f, epidemia (es) f
• Tagalog: angol, taping (animal)
• Walloon: pesse (wa)

destructive insect

• Armenian: վնասատու (hy) (vnasatu), վնասատու կենդանի (vnasatu kendani), ուտիճ (hy) (utič)
• Danish: skadedyr (da)
• Dutch: pest (nl), plaag (nl)
• Finnish: tuhoeläin (fi)
• French: peste (fr) f
• Georgian: მავნებელი (mavnebeli)
• Icelandic: meindýr n
• Italian: parassita (it) m
• Maori: orotā, kīrearea

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skadedyr n

  Nynorsk: skadedyr n

• Polish: szkodnik (pl) m, insekt (pl) m
• Portuguese: peste (pt) f
• Russian: вреди́тель (ru) m (vredítelʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: plàigh f
• Serbo-Croatian: štetòčina (sh) f, štȅtnīk (sh) m
• Volapük: minimil (vo), (animal) dämabanim, (diminutive) dämabanimil, (insect) dämabanäsäk, (plant) dämabaplan

annoying person

• Danish: plage (da), plageånd, pestilens
• Dutch: lastpak (nl) n
• Finnish: maanvaiva, kiusankappale (fi), kiusanhenki
• German: Nervensäge (de) f, Quälgeist (de) m
• Greek: ζιζάνιο (el) n (zizánio)
• Maori: orotā, nanakia, pōrearea

• Navajo: doo yildinii
• Portuguese: peste (pt) m, f
• Russian: вреди́тель (ru) m (vredítelʹ), парази́т (ru) m (parazít)
• Scottish Gaelic: plàigh f
• Serbo-Croatian: dosadnjáković (sh) m, dosàdnjāk (sh) m
• Spanish: moscardón m

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

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Danish

Etymology

From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

Noun

pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

1. (medicine) plague
2. (figuratively) pestilence

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest f (uncountable)

1. A plague, pest, pestilence.
2. A specific bovine plague
3. An obnoxious person

Derived terms

Terms derived from pest

• builenpest
• koeienpest
• pestbacil
• pestblaar
• pestbos
• pestbuil
• pesten

• pestepidemie
• pester
• pesterij
• pestgeval
• pestgezwel
• pesthaard

• pesthekel
• pesthol
• pesthuis
• pestilent
• pestkop
• pestlijder

• pestlucht
• pestvent
• pestvogel
• pestziek
• varkenspest
• vogelpest

Verb

pest

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
2. imperative of pesten

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest f, m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

References

• “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest m (definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f (definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

References

• “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pêːst/

Noun

pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

1. (regional, literary) fist

Declension

Declension of pest

	singular	plural
nominative	pȇst	pesti
genitive	pesti	péstī
dative	pesti	pestima
accusative	pest	pesti
vocative	pesti	pesti
locative	pesti	pestima
instrumental	pesti/pešću	pestima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian пест, pest, Slovak päsť, Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “middle part of the hand”) and запя́стье (zapjástʹje), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) пестник (pestnik), песник (pesnik), пестница (pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ), English fist, German Faust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpéːst/
• Tonal orthography: pẹ̑st

Noun

pést f (genitive pestí, nominative plural pestí)

1. (anatomy) fist

Declension

Declension of pést (feminine, i-stem, mobile accent)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	pést	pestí	pestí
accusative	pést	pestí	pestí
genitive	pestí	pestí	pestí
dative	pêsti	pestéma	pestém
locative	pêsti	pestéh	pestéh
instrumental	pestjó	pestéma	pestmí

Derived terms

• pésten

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Swedish

Noun

pest c

1. A plague
2. A pest; something deeply annoying

Related terms

• pest och pina
• välja mellan pest och kolera