different between celerity vs haste

English

Etymology

From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l???ti/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

celerity (usually uncountable, plural celerities)

1. Speed, swiftness.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, act 5, in Measure for Measure:

     O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.
2. (oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).
3. (hydrology) The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain.
4. (telecommunications, dated) The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian h?st, h?ste (“haste”), Old English h?st (“violence”), Old English h?ste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adj), Old Norse heift/heipt (“feud”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Noun

haste (uncountable)

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

   We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

   • The king's business required haste.

2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

   • I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.

Synonyms

• (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry

References

Anagrams

• ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /(?)as?.te/

Noun

haste inan

1. Verbal noun of hasi.

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ast?]
• Rhymes: -ast?

Verb

haste (imperative)

1. second-person plural imperative of hasit

Esperanto

Adverb

haste

1. hastily

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hast?/
• Hyphenation: has?te
• Homophone: hasste

Verb

haste

1. inflection of hasten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative
2. (colloquial) contraction of hast du

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

haste (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative hast)

1. Alternative form of hasta

Old French

Alternative forms

• hast, ast

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”)

Noun

haste f (oblique plural hastes, nominative singular haste, nominative plural hastes)

1. urgency, haste, speed

Derived terms

• haster
• hasteier
• hastece, hastance
• hastif

Descendants

• Middle French: haste
  • French: hâte
• Walloon: hausse (Forrières), håsse (Liégeois)
• ? Middle Dutch: haest, haeste, haste, hast (reborrowing)
  • Dutch: haast
    • Afrikaans: haas
  • ? West Flemish: hoast
  • ? Middle Low German: h?st
    • Middle High German: h?st
      • German: Hast
• ? Middle English: haste, hast
  • English: haste

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From hasta.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a?t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ast?i/

Noun

haste f (plural hastes)

1. pole
2. (botany) stem, stalk

Derived terms

• hastear

Further reading

• “haste” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.