pest

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

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

pest (plural pests)

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
3. An annoying person, a nuisance.
4. An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
5. An invasive weed.

• (creature): bug

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

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

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pest f (uncountable)

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

pest

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

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

From Latin pestis

pest f or 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

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

• “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin pestis

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

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

• “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь

• IPA^(key): /pêːst/

pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

1. (regional, literary) fist

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.

• IPA^(key): /péːst/

pẹ̑st f

1. (anatomy) fist

• pésten

pest c

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

• pest och pina
• välja mellan pest och kolera