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Pest

See also: pest, and pěst

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Etymology

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From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).

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Pest

  1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
    Coordinate terms: Buda, Óbuda
  2. The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
    Coordinate term: Buda
    • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.
  3. A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

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Etymology 1

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16th century, from Latin pestis, in part through Middle French peste. Popular shortening of Middle High German pestilencie (14th c.), from related Latin pestilentia, may also have contributed (though this is impossible to prove).

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  • IPA(key): /pɛst/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

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Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten)

  1. (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague
    Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod
    Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten.
    The plague devastated especially towns and cities.
  2. (in compounds) any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals
    Hyponyms: Geflügelpest, Hasenpest, Rinderpest, Schweinepest
  3. (figurative) anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster
    Synonyms: Seuche, Plage
    Ölpest ― oil spill
    Drogenpest ― drug plague
  4. (figurative, informal) anything terrible or odious
    die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera
    a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea
    (literally, “between the plague and cholera”)
    Sowas hasse ich wie die Pest.
    That’s something I really loathe.
    (literally, “something I hate like the plague.”)
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Declension of Pest [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Pest die Pesten1
genitive einer der Pest der Pesten1
dative einer der Pest den Pesten1
accusative eine die Pest die Pesten1

1Rare.

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest)

  1. Pest (a quarter of Budapest, Hungary)

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Hungarian

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 Pest megye on Hungarian Wikipedia
 
Pest as a part of the city of Budapest, marked in green
 
The location of Pest county on the map of Hungary

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Proper noun

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Pest

  1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
  2. The corresponding part of current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
    Coordinate term: Buda
  3. (informal, loosely) Ellipsis of Budapest.
  4. An administrative county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest, often meant to exclude the capital itself.

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative Pest —
accusative Pestet —
dative Pestnek —
instrumental Pesttel —
causal-final Pestért —
translative Pestté —
terminative Pestig —
essive-formal Pestként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Pestben —
superessive Pesten —
adessive Pestnél —
illative Pestbe —
sublative Pestre —
allative Pesthez —
elative Pestből —
delative Pestről —
ablative Pesttől —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Pesté —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Pestéi —
Possessive forms of Pest
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Pestem —
2nd person sing. Pested —
3rd person sing. Pestje —
1st person plural Pestünk —
2nd person plural Pestetek —
3rd person plural Pestjük —

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Pest f

  1. plague

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