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cost
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?st/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?k?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin c?st?, from Latin c?nst? (“stand together”).
Verb
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)
- To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- 1977, Star Wars
- LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
- 1977, Star Wars
- To calculate or estimate a price.
Usage notes
The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me £600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million."
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
Noun
cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).
Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
Noun
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Derived terms
- at all costs
Related terms
- costen
- costning
- needs-cost
Etymology 4
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
Noun
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) A rib; a side.
- betwixt the costs of a ship
- (heraldry) A cottise.
Anagrams
- C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot
Catalan
Noun
cost m (plural costs or costos)
- cost
Derived terms
- preu de cost
Related terms
- costar
Manx
Noun
cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)
- charge (monetary)
Derived terms
- costal
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to choose”).
Akin to Old Saxon kost?n (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kost?n (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ??osan (“to choose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kost/
Noun
cost m
- option, choice; possibility
- condition, manner, way
Declension
Adjective
cost
- chosen, choice
- tried, proven; excellent
Declension
Old French
Etymology
From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).
Noun
cost m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)
- cost; financial outlay
Related terms
- coster
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kost]
Etymology 1
Verb
cost
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa
Etymology 2
Back-formation from costa
Noun
cost n (uncountable)
- cost
Declension
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English cost.
Noun
cost m or f (plural costau)
- cost
- expense
Mutation
cost From the web:
- what costs are involved in buying a home
- what costs come with owning a car
- what costs a billion dollars
- what cost house can i afford
- what costs are involved in renting a house
- what costs 100 dollars
- what costs are involved in selling a home
- what costco stores sell liquor
onset
English
Etymology
From on- +? set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/
- (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/
Noun
onset (plural onsets)
- (archaic) An attack; an assault especially of an army.
- Synonym: storming
- 1800, William Wordsworth, Six thousand Veterans
- Who on that day the word of onset gave.
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- Synonym: anlaut
- Antonym: coda
- Coordinate terms: nucleus, coda, rime
- Holonym: syllable
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- Synonyms: start, beginning; see also Thesaurus:beginning
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Delays
- There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
- (obsolete) Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
- 1592, William Shakespeare , Titus Andronicus, Act 1, Scene 1
- And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:
- And, for an onset, Titus, to advance
- Thy name and honourable family,
- Lavinia will I make my empress.
- 1592, William Shakespeare , Titus Andronicus, Act 1, Scene 1
Translations
Verb
onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)
- (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
- (obsolete) To set about; to begin.
References
- onset in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, set on, seton, steno, steno-, stone, tones
onset From the web:
- what onset means
- what onsets shingles
- what onset of covid feels like
- what onset and rime
- what onsets vertigo
- what onset schizophrenia
- what onsets a migraine
- what's onset dementia
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