Rest

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See also: rest, REST, rešt, rest., and Rest.

German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian resto, from restare (“to remain”), from Latin restō.

Noun

Rest m (strong, genitive Restes or Rests, plural Reste, diminutive Restchen n)

  1. rest, remainder, remnant
    • 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 41:
      Die kleine Stutzuhr auf dem Kamin, ein letzter Rest der Habe meiner Eltern, schlug zehn.
      The small bracket clock on the chimney, a last remnant of the belongings of my parents, chimed ten.
  2. (chemistry) radical
Declension
Declension of Rest
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Rest die Reste
genitive eines des Restes, Rests der Reste
dative einem dem Rest, Reste1 den Resten
accusative einen den Rest die Reste

1Now rare, see notes.

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Etymology 2

Proper noun

Rest m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Rests or (with an article) Rest, feminine genitive Rest, plural Rests)

  1. a surname

Further reading

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Rest m (plural Rester)

  1. remainder, remnant

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