rost

See also: Rost, róst, ròst, rôt, röst, Røst, and рост

English

Noun

rost (plural rosts)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of roust (a strong tide or current)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rost in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

rost m

  1. roasted meat

Catalan

Adjective

rost (feminine rosta, masculine plural rosts or rostos, feminine plural rostes)

  1. steep

Noun

rost m (plural rosts or rostos)

  1. a steep slope

Danish

Verb

rost

  1. past participle of rose

Dutch

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ɔst

Adjective

rost

  1. Superlative form of ros

Anagrams

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈroʃt]
  • Hyphenation: rost

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from an unattested stem + -t (noun-forming suffix).[1]

Noun

rost (plural rostok)

  1. fiber
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative rost rostok
accusative rostot rostokat
dative rostnak rostoknak
instrumental rosttal rostokkal
causal-final rostért rostokért
translative rosttá rostokká
terminative rostig rostokig
essive-formal rostként rostokként
essive-modal — —
inessive rostban rostokban
superessive roston rostokon
adessive rostnál rostoknál
illative rostba rostokba
sublative rostra rostokra
allative rosthoz rostokhoz
elative rostból rostokból
delative rostról rostokról
ablative rosttól rostoktól
Possessive forms of rost
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. rostom rostjaim
2nd person sing. rostod rostjaid
3rd person sing. rostja rostjai
1st person plural rostunk rostjaink
2nd person plural rostotok rostjaitok
3rd person plural rostjuk rostjaik

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German, more specifically from Bavarian. Compare Rost (“grill”).[1]

Noun

rost (plural rostok)

  1. grill (grid of metal to roast food on)
    Synonyms: rostély, vasrács
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative rost rostok
accusative rostot rostokat
dative rostnak rostoknak
instrumental rosttal rostokkal
causal-final rostért rostokért
translative rosttá rostokká
terminative rostig rostokig
essive-formal rostként rostokként
essive-modal — —
inessive rostban rostokban
superessive roston rostokon
adessive rostnál rostoknál
illative rostba rostokba
sublative rostra rostokra
allative rosthoz rostokhoz
elative rostból rostokból
delative rostról rostokról
ablative rosttól rostoktól
Possessive forms of rost
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. rostom rostjaim
2nd person sing. rostod rostjaid
3rd person sing. rostja rostjai
1st person plural rostunk rostjaink
2nd person plural rostotok rostjaitok
3rd person plural rostjuk rostjaik

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Lombard

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔʃt/

Noun

rost m (invariable)

  1. roast

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [rɔst]

Verb

rost

  1. supine of rosć

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French rost, roste.

Noun

rost

  1. Alternative form of roste (“roast”)

Etymology 2

From Old French rostir.

Verb

rost

  1. Alternative form of rosten (“to roast”)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orstъ.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /rɔst/

Noun

rost m inan

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of wzrost.

Declension
declension of rost
singular plural
nominative rost rosty
genitive rostu rostów
dative rostowi rostom
accusative rost rosty
instrumental rostem rostami
locative roście rostach
vocative roście rosty

Further reading
  • rost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin rōstrum. Compare Aromanian arostu. Compare also related meanings in Albanian rast.

Noun

rost n (plural rosturi)

  1. order
  2. sense, meaning
  3. purpose, aim
  4. justification
  5. job
  6. (obsolete) mouth
  7. (obsolete) the faculty of speaking, speech

Declension
declension of rost
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) rost rostul (niște) rosturi rosturile
genitive/dative (unui) rost rostului (unor) rosturi rosturilor
vocative rostule rosturilor

Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish rost, from Old Norse *rustr, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Noun

rost c

  1. (uncountable) rust
  2. a gridiron, a grill

Declension
Declension of rost 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rost rosten rostar rostarna
Genitive rosts rostens rostars rostarnas
  • rosta
  • rostfri
  • rostning
  • rostpendel
  • rostskydd
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