tost

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of toss
   • 1810, Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake; a Poem, Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, OCLC 6632529, canto I (The Chase), stanza XXII, page 28:

     A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.

• TSTO, stot, tots

From Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔst/

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

tost

1. Second-person singular present of tosen.
2. Second-person plural present of tosen.
3. Third-person singular present of tosen.
4. Imperative plural of tosen.

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tusto-.

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔsˠt̪ˠ/

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Bí i do thost! ― Be silent!, Be quiet!, Shut up!

   Proverb:

   Is binn béal ina thost. ― A silent mouth is sweet.

2. verbal noun of tost

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

   Thost sé bomaite. ― He remained silent a while.

• "tost" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tost” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “tostaim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “tost”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299
• Entries containing “tost” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tost” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Old French toster.

tost

1. Alternative form of tosten

A back-formation from tosten.

• toste, toost

• IPA^(key): /tɔːst/
• Rhymes: -ɔːst

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

• “tōst (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

• IPA^(key): /tɔst/

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

• French: tôt

• “tot” in An etymological dictionary of the French language, Oxford University Press, 1837.
• etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

• IPA^(key): /tɔst/

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• tosd

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tusto-.

• IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔs̪t̪]

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “tost”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

From English toast.

tost (definite accusative tosdu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Compare Italian toast

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich