Pest

See also: pest and pěst

English

Alternative forms

• Pesth (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/
• Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛʃt
• Homophone: pest

Proper noun

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.

Translations

area of Budapest — see also Budapest

• German: Pest (de)
• Hungarian: Pest (hu)
• Ottoman Turkish: پشته (Peşte)
• Turkish: Peşte

Anagrams

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

German

Etymology 1

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

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.”)

Declension

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.

Derived terms

• Beulenpest
• Geflügelpest
• Hühnerpest
• Lungenpest
• Ölpest
• pestartig
• Pestbeule
• Pestepidemie
• Rinderpest
• Schweinepest
• verpesten

 

Related terms

• Pestilenz

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/

Noun

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

1. Pest (a quarter of Budapest, Hungary)

Further reading

• “Pest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Pest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Pest, Krankheit” in Duden online
• “Pest, Stadtteil, Budapest” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pest as a part of the city of Budapest, marked in green

The location of Pest county on the map of Hungary

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛʃt]
• Hyphenation: Pest
• Rhymes: -ɛʃt

Proper noun

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

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	—

Derived terms

• pesti

(Compound words):

• Újpest

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰeʃt/

Noun

Pest f

1. plague

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary