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rost

See also:Rost,róst,ròst,rošt,rôt,röst,Røst,andрост

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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rost(pluralrosts)

  1. (Scotland)Alternative form ofroust(a strong tide or current)

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rost(third-person singular simple presentrosts,present participlerosting,simple past and past participlerosted)

  1. Obsoleteform ofroast.
    • 1595,George Peele,The Old Wives’ Tale,The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,[1]
      Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay acrabin the fire torostfor Lambes-wooll[…]
    • 1612,John Smith,Map of Virginia,Kupperman, published1988,page138:
      Their corne theyrostin the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
    • 1669,John Baptista Porta,Natural Magick,page322:
      […]and care must be had torosthim so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all isrosted,and the Polenta is taken away.

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rost(countableanduncountable,pluralrosts)

  1. Obsoleteform ofroast.
    • 1575,“Gammer Gurton’s Needle”, inA Select Collection of Old Plays.[…],2nd edition, volume II, London:[…]J. Nichols; for J. Dodsley,[…],published1780,page20:
      I love noroſt,but a nut-brown toſte, and a crab layde in the fyre, / A lytle bread ſhall do me stead, much breade I not deſyre.
    • 1600,S[amuel] R[owlands],The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine.[…],London:[…]W. White for W. F., page 9:
      WhenThraſomeets his friend, he ſweares by God, / Vnto his Chamber he ſhall welcome be: / Not that hee’le cloy him there withroſtor ſod, / Such vulgar diet with Cookes ſhops agree: / But hee’le preſent moſt kinde, exceeding franke / The beſtTabacco,that he euer dranke.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Isaiah44:16,column 1:
      He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth fleſh: he roſtethroſt,and is ſatiſfied: yea hee warmethhimſelfe,and ſaith; Aha, I am warme, I haue ſeene the fire.
    • 1634,A Strange Metamorphosis of Man, Transformed into a VVildernesse. Deciphered in Characters.,London:[…]Thomas Harper,[…]sold by Lawrence Chapman[…]:
      IfPluto’streaſury be golden Mynes in the bowels of the earth, this is his Kitchin, ſeated in his cellars there, or his Coalehouſe rather, where hee ſtores his fuell for hisroſts.

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rost(notcomparable)

  1. Obsoleteform ofroast.
    • 1510,“Notes from an Old City Account Book”, inThe Archaeological Journal.[…],volume XLIII, London:[…]the Office of the[Royal Archaeological]Institute,[…],published1886,page172:
      The secund covrse / Creme off almondsRostconey plouers small byrds & custard
    • 1622,Relation or Iournall of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Setled at Plimoth in New England, by Certaine English Aduenturers Both Merchants and Others.[…],London:[…][J. Dawson]for Iohn Bellamie,[…],page47:
      After ſupper we went to reſt, and they to fiſhing againe: more they gat and fell to eating a freſh, and retayned ſufficient readieroſtfor all our break-faſts.
    • 1623,G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledge of the Hous-wife; and of Her Skill in Cookerie; as Sallets of All Sorts, with Flesh, Fish, Sauces, Pastrie, Banqueting-stuffe, and Ordering of Great Feasts: Also Distillations, Perfumes, Conceited Secrets, and Preseruing Wine of All Sorts”, inCovntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife.[…],London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson,[…],→OCLC,page126:
      Next them all ſorts ofRoſt-meates, of which the greateſt firſt, as Chine of beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.
    • 1649,Εικων Ἡ Πιστη[Eikōn Hē Pistē].Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication ofΕικὼν Βασιλική[Eikṑn Basilikḗ].[…],[London]:[s.n.],page61:
      […]will you take the foam of a mad dog, and put it into your pot of pottage, to poyſon half the family, that you may have the moreroſtmeat to your ſelves?

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Breton

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FromOld Frenchrostir,ofWest Germanicorigin.

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rostm

  1. roastedmeat

Catalan

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Uncertain. Perhaps of pre-Roman origin.

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rost(femininerosta,masculine pluralrostsorrostos,feminine pluralrostes)

  1. steep

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rostm(pluralrostsorrostos)

  1. a steepslope

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Danish

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rost

  1. pastparticipleofrose

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rost

  1. superlative degreeofros

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Hungarian

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Etymology 1

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Uncertain. Perhaps from an unattested stem +-t(noun-forming suffix).[1]

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rost(pluralrostok)

  1. fiber
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Inflection (stem in-o-,back harmony)
singular plural
nominative rost rostok
accusative rostot rostokat
dative rostnak rostoknak
instrumental rosttal rostokkal
causal-final rostért rostokért
translative rosttá rostokká
terminative rostig rostokig
essive-formal rostként rostokként
essive-modal — —
inessive rostban rostokban
superessive roston rostokon
adessive rostnál rostoknál
illative rostba rostokba
sublative rostra rostokra
allative rosthoz rostokhoz
elative rostból rostokból
delative rostról rostokról
ablative rosttól rostoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		rosté rostoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		rostéi rostokéi
Possessive formsofrost
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. rostom rostjaim
2nd person sing. rostod rostjaid
3rd person sing. rostja rostjai
1st person plural rostunk rostjaink
2nd person plural rostotok rostjaitok
3rd person plural rostjuk rostjaik

Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromGerman,more specifically from Bavarian. CompareRost(“grill”).[1]

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rost(pluralrostok)

  1. grill(grid of metal to roast food on)
    Synonyms:rostély,vasrács
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Inflection (stem in-o-,back harmony)
singular plural
nominative rost rostok
accusative rostot rostokat
dative rostnak rostoknak
instrumental rosttal rostokkal
causal-final rostért rostokért
translative rosttá rostokká
terminative rostig rostokig
essive-formal rostként rostokként
essive-modal — —
inessive rostban rostokban
superessive roston rostokon
adessive rostnál rostoknál
illative rostba rostokba
sublative rostra rostokra
allative rosthoz rostokhoz
elative rostból rostokból
delative rostról rostokról
ablative rosttól rostoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		rosté rostoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		rostéi rostokéi
Possessive formsofrost
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. rostom rostjaim
2nd person sing. rostod rostjaid
3rd person sing. rostja rostjai
1st person plural rostunk rostjaink
2nd person plural rostotok rostjaitok
3rd person plural rostjuk rostjaik

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  1. ↑1.01.1rostin Zaicz, Gábor (ed.).Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete(‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006,→ISBN.(See alsoits 2nd edition.)

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  • (fiber):rostinBárczi, GézaandLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára( “The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN
  • (grill):rostinBárczi, GézaandLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára( “The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchrostir,ofWest Germanicorigin.

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rostm(invariable)

  1. roast

Lower Sorbian

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rost

  1. supineofrosć

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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rost

  1. Alternative form ofroste(“roast”)

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rost

  1. Alternative form ofrust

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rost

  1. Alternative form ofrosten(“to roast”)

Polish

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Etymology

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FromProto-Slavic*orstъ.

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rostminan

  1. (dialectal)Alternative form ofwzrost

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Declension ofrost
singular plural
nominative rost rosty
genitive rostu rostów
dative rostowi rostom
accusative rost rosty
instrumental rostem rostami
locative roście rostach
vocative roście rosty
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  • rostin Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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InheritedfromLatinrōstrum.CompareAromanianarostu.Compare also related meanings in Albanianrast.

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rostn(pluralrosturi)

  1. order
  2. sense,meaning
    Synonym:sens
  3. purpose,aim
  4. justification
  5. job
  6. (obsolete)mouth
    Synonym:gură
  7. (obsolete)the faculty ofspeaking,speech
    Synonym:vorbire

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Declension ofrost
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un)rost rostul (niște)rosturi rosturile
genitive/dative (unui)rost rostului (unor)rosturi rosturilor
vocative rostule rosturilor
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Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Swedishrost,fromOld Norse*rustr,fromProto-Germanic*rustaz,fromProto-Indo-European*h₁rewdʰ-.

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rostc

  1. (uncountable)rust(on iron or steel)
  2. (uncountable)rust(plant disease)
  3. agridiron,agrill

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Declension ofrost
nominative genitive
singular indefinite rost rosts
definite rosten rostens
plural indefinite rostar rostars
definite rostarna rostarnas

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Talysh

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Cognate withPersianراست(rāst).

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rost

  1. right(dexter)
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