Faust

English

Etymology

After Johann Georg Faust, German magician and alchemist

Proper noun

Faust

1. A magician and alchemist of German lore who sold his soul to the Devil for knowledge and power.
2. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada

Derived terms

• Faustian

See also

Wikisource

• fausty

Anagrams

• tufas

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German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German fūst, vūst, voust, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German fūst, from West Germanic *funsti-, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *funstiz, possibly ultimately derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”). Cognate with Dutch vuist, Low German Fust, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fȳst (English fist).

Noun

Faust f (genitive Faust, plural Fäuste, diminutive Fäustchen n)

1. a fist