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rost

See also: Rost, róst, ròst, rôt, röst, Røst, and рост

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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rost (plural rosts)

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

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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rost (third-person singular simple present rosts, present participle rosting, simple past and past participle rosted)

  1. Obsolete form of roast.
    • 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 a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]
    • 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138:
      Their corne they rost in 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, page 322:
      […] and care must be had to rost him so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all is rosted, and the Polenta is taken away.

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rost (countable and uncountable, plural rosts)

  1. Obsolete form of roast.
    • 1575, “Gammer Gurton’s Needle”, in A Select Collection of Old Plays. […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] J. Nichols; for J. Dodsley, […], published 1780, page 20:
      I love no roſt, 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:
      When Thraſo meets his friend, he ſweares by God, / Vnto his Chamber he ſhall welcome be: / Not that hee’le cloy him there with roſt or ſod, / Such vulgar diet with Cookes ſhops agree: / But hee’le preſent moſt kinde, exceeding franke / The beſt Tabacco, that he euer dranke.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 44:16, column 1:
      He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth fleſh: he roſteth roſt, and is ſatiſfied: yea hee warmeth himſelfe, 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 […]:
      If Pluto’s treaſury 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 his roſts.

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rost (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of roast.
    • 1510, “Notes from an Old City Account Book”, in The Archaeological Journal. […], volume XLIII, London: […] the Office of the [Royal Archaeological] Institute, […], published 1886, page 172:
      The secund covrse / Creme off almonds Rost coney 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, […], page 47:
      After ſupper we went to reſt, and they to fiſhing againe: more they gat and fell to eating a freſh, and retayned ſufficient readie roſt for 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”, in Covntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife. […], London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson, […], →OCLC, page 126:
      Next them all ſorts of Roſt-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 of Εικὼν Βασιλική [Eikṑn Basilikḗ]. […], [London]: [s.n.], page 61:
      […] 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 more roſt meat to your ſelves?

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Breton

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Etymology

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From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.

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rost m

  1. roasted meat

Catalan

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Uncertain. Perhaps of pre-Roman origin.

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rost (feminine rosta, masculine plural rosts or rostos, feminine plural rostes)

  1. steep

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rost m (plural rosts or rostos)

  1. a steep slope

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Danish

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rost

  1. past participle of rose

Dutch

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔst

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rost

  1. superlative degree of ros

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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]

Noun

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rost (plural rostok)

  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 forms of rost
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 from German, more specifically from Bavarian. Compare Rost (“grill”).[1]

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rost (plural rostok)

  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 forms of rost
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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 rost in 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 also its 2nd edition.)

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  • (fiber): rost 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
  • (grill): rost 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

Lombard

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Etymology

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From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.

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rost m (invariable)

  1. roast

Lower Sorbian

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rost

  1. supine of rosć

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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rost

  1. Alternative form of roste (“roast”)

Etymology 2

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rost

  1. Alternative form of rust

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rost

  1. Alternative form of rosten (“to roast”)

Polish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *orstъ.

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rost m inan

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of wzrost

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Declension of rost
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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  • rost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin rōstrum. Compare Aromanian arostu. Compare also related meanings in Albanian rast.

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rost n (plural rosturi)

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

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Declension of rost
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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From Old Swedish rost, from Old Norse *rustr, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

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rost c

  1. (uncountable) rust (on iron or steel)
  2. (uncountable) rust (plant disease)
  3. a gridiron, a grill

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Declension of rost 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rost rosten rostar rostarna
Genitive rosts rostens rostars rostarnas

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Talysh

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Etymology

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Cognate with Persian راست (rāst).

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rost

  1. right (dexter)
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