pestis

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin pestis (“disease, plague”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛʃtiʃ]
  • Hyphenation: pes‧tis

Noun

pestis (plural pestisek)

  1. plague

Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pestis pestisek
accusative pestist pestiseket
dative pestisnek pestiseknek
instrumental pestissel pestisekkel
causal-final pestisért pestisekért
translative pestissé pestisekké
terminative pestisig pestisekig
essive-formal pestisként pestisekként
essive-modal — —
inessive pestisben pestisekben
superessive pestisen pestiseken
adessive pestisnél pestiseknél
illative pestisbe pestisekbe
sublative pestisre pestisekre
allative pestishez pestisekhez
elative pestisből pestisekből
delative pestisről pestisekről
ablative pestistől pestisektől
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

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; possibly cognate with the second element of young Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱‎ (kapastiš), the name of an illness, rendering a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *pesti- (“illness”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpes.tis/, [ˈpɛs.tɪs]

Noun

pestis f (genitive pestis); third declension

  1. a disease, plague
  2. a pest
  3. destruction, ruin, death

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pestis pestēs
Genitive pestis pestium
Dative pestī pestibus
Accusative pestem pestēs
Ablative peste pestibus
Vocative pestis pestēs

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 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. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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