pestis

English

Noun

pestis (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) Plague.
    • 2014, John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner M.D., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
      page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis.
      page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛʃtiʃ]
  • Hyphenation: pes‧tis
  • Rhymes: -iʃ

Noun

pestis (plural pestisek)

  1. plague

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of pestis
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pestisem pestiseim
2nd person sing. pestised pestiseid
3rd person sing. pestise pestisei
1st person plural pestisünk pestiseink
2nd person plural pestisetek pestiseitek
3rd person plural pestisük pestiseik

Derived terms

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • pestis 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

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Equated with a supposed second element of Younger Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱 (kapastiš), the name of an illness,[1][2] which beside ka-pastiš has its morphological boundaries also rendered kap-astiš and been identified with Persian کبست (kabast, colocynth; deadly poison), with seemingly the suffix as Persian دهمست (dahmast, laurel) if not اسپست (aspest, lucerne).

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. a disease, plague, pestilence
    Synonyms: morbus, aegritūdō, malum, valētūdō, labor, infirmitas, incommodum
    Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
  2. a pest
  3. destruction, ruin, death
    Synonyms: perniciēs, interitus, ruīna, cruciātus, exitium, vulnus, cāsus, clādēs, perditiō, excidiō, excidium, lētum, dēstrūctiō

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: pesta
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Italian: peste
  • Middle French: peste
  • Portuguese: peste
  • Spanish: peste

References

  • pestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pestis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
    • to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui
    • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: pestem alicui (in aliquem) machinari
  1. Bartholomae, Christian (1904) Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary] (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, column 436
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 463
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