staféta

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See also: štafeta, stafetă, and ștafetă

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian staffetta (“courier; relay race; relay team”), also via German Stafette (“courier; relay race”). Chiefly introduced via military jargon. First attested in 1697.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: sta‧fé‧ta
  • Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

staféta (plural staféták)

  1. (archaic, historical) an express messenger, especially one using relay horses
    Synonym: gyorsfutár
  2. (sports, dated) relay, relay race (competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action)
    Synonyms: váltó, váltóverseny
    1. (sports, dated) relay team
      Synonyms: váltó, váltócsapat
    2. (sports) baton (object transferred between members of a team in a relay race)
      Synonyms: stafétabot, váltóbot

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative staféta staféták
accusative stafétát stafétákat
dative stafétának stafétáknak
instrumental stafétával stafétákkal
causal-final stafétáért stafétákért
translative stafétává stafétákká
terminative stafétáig stafétákig
essive-formal stafétaként stafétákként
essive-modal — —
inessive stafétában stafétákban
superessive stafétán stafétákon
adessive stafétánál stafétáknál
illative stafétába stafétákba
sublative stafétára stafétákra
allative stafétához stafétákhoz
elative stafétából stafétákból
delative stafétáról stafétákról
ablative stafétától stafétáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		stafétáé stafétáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		stafétáéi stafétákéi
Possessive forms of staféta
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. stafétám stafétáim
2nd person sing. stafétád stafétáid
3rd person sing. stafétája stafétái
1st person plural stafétánk stafétáink
2nd person plural stafétátok stafétáitok
3rd person plural stafétájuk stafétáik

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ staféta in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • staféta 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
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