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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
rost (plural rosts)
- (Scotland) Alternative form of roust (a strong tide or current)
References
Etymology 2
Verb
rost (third-person singular simple present rosts, present participle rosting, simple past and past participle rosted)
- Obsolete form of roast.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,
- Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll
1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138:Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
1669, John Baptista Porta, Natural Magick, page 322:[…] and care must be had to rost him so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all is rosted, and the Polenta is taken away.
Noun
rost (countable and uncountable, plural rosts)
- Obsolete form of roast.
1575, “Gammer Gurton’s Needle”, in A Select Collection of Old Plays. , 2nd edition, volume II, London: J. Nichols; for J. Dodsley, , published 1780, page 20:I love no roſt, but a nut-brown toſte, and a crab layde in the fyre, / A lytle bread ſhall do me stead, much breade I not deſyre.
1600, S[amuel] R[owlands], The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine. , London: W. White for W. F., page 9:When Thraſo meets his friend, he ſweares by God, / Vnto his Chamber he ſhall welcome be: / Not that hee’le cloy him there with roſt or ſod, / Such vulgar diet with Cookes ſhops agree: / But hee’le preſent moſt kinde, exceeding franke / The beſt Tabacco, that he euer dranke.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 44:16, column 1:He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth fleſh: he roſteth roſt, and is ſatiſfied: yea hee warmeth himſelfe, and ſaith; Aha, I am warme, I haue ſeene the fire.
1634, A Strange Metamorphosis of Man, Transformed into a VVildernesse. Deciphered in Characters., London: Thomas Harper, sold by Lawrence Chapman :If Pluto’s treaſury be golden Mynes in the bowels of the earth, this is his Kitchin, ſeated in his cellars there, or his Coalehouſe rather, where hee ſtores his fuell for his roſts.
Adjective
rost (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of roast.
1510, “Notes from an Old City Account Book”, in The Archaeological Journal. , volume XLIII, London: the Office of the Institute, , published 1886, page 172:The secund covrse / Creme off almonds Rost coney plouers small byrds & custard
1622, Relation or Iournall of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Setled at Plimoth in New England, by Certaine English Aduenturers Both Merchants and Others. , London: for Iohn Bellamie, , page 47:After ſupper we went to reſt, and they to fiſhing againe: more they gat and fell to eating a freſh, and retayned ſufficient readie roſt for all our break-faſts.
1623, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledge of the Hous-wife; and of Her Skill in Cookerie; as Sallets of All Sorts, with Flesh, Fish, Sauces, Pastrie, Banqueting-stuffe, and Ordering of Great Feasts: Also Distillations, Perfumes, Conceited Secrets, and Preseruing Wine of All Sorts”, in Covntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife. , London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson, , →OCLC, page 126:Next them all ſorts of Roſt-meates, of which the greateſt firſt, as Chine of beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.
1649, Εικων Ἡ Πιστη . Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of Εικὼν Βασιλική . , : , page 61:[…] will you take the foam of a mad dog, and put it into your pot of pottage, to poyſon half the family, that you may have the more roſt meat to your ſelves?
Anagrams
Breton
Etymology
From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.
Noun
rost m
- roasted meat
Catalan
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps of pre-Roman origin.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rost (feminine rosta, masculine plural rosts or rostos, feminine plural rostes)
- steep
Noun
rost m (plural rosts or rostos)
- a steep slope
Further reading
Danish
Verb
rost
- past participle of rose
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
rost
- superlative degree of ros
Anagrams
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Perhaps from an unattested stem + -t (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
rost (plural rostok)
- fiber
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from German, more specifically from Bavarian. Compare Rost (“grill”).
Noun
rost (plural rostok)
- grill (grid of metal to roast food on)
- Synonyms: rostély, vasrács
Declension
References
Further reading
- (fiber): rost in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (grill): rost in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Lombard
Etymology
From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
rost m (invariable)
- roast
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Verb
rost
- supine of rosć
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
rost
- Alternative form of roste (“roast”)
Etymology 2
Noun
rost
- Alternative form of rust
Etymology 3
Verb
rost
- Alternative form of rosten (“to roast”)
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *orstъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɔst/
- Rhymes: -ɔst
- Syllabification: rost
Noun
rost m inan
- (dialectal) Alternative form of wzrost
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- rost in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin rōstrum. Compare Aromanian arostu. Compare also related meanings in Albanian rast.
Pronunciation
Noun
rost n (plural rosturi)
- order
- sense, meaning
- Synonym: sens
- purpose, aim
- justification
- job
- (obsolete) mouth
- Synonym: gură
- (obsolete) the faculty of speaking, speech
- Synonym: vorbire
Declension
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish rost, from Old Norse *rustr, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Noun
rost c
- (uncountable) rust (on iron or steel)
- (uncountable) rust (plant disease)
- a gridiron, a grill
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
References
Anagrams
Talysh
Etymology
Cognate with Persian راست (rāst).
Adjective
rost
- right (dexter)