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.

Translations

Anagrams

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
    Ölpestoil spill
    Drogenpestdrug 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
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. Pest (a quarter of Budapest, Hungary)

Further reading

Hungarian

 Pest megye on Hungarian Wikipedia
Pest as a part of the city of Budapest, marked in green
The location of Pest county on the map of Hungary

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

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

Derived terms

Compound words

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Pest f

  1. plague

Further reading