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cost

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?st/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?k?st/
  • (cotcaught 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)

  1. 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; [].
  2. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
  3. 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."
  4. 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)

  1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
  2. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

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Derived terms

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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)

  1. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
  2. 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)

  1. (obsolete) A rib; a side.
    • betwixt the costs of a ship
  2. (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)

  1. cost

Derived terms

  • preu de cost

Related terms

  • costar

Manx

Noun

cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)

  1. 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

  1. option, choice; possibility
  2. condition, manner, way

Declension

Adjective

cost

  1. chosen, choice
  2. 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)

  1. cost; financial outlay

Related terms

  • coster

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kost]

Etymology 1

Verb

cost

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa

Etymology 2

Back-formation from costa

Noun

cost n (uncountable)

  1. cost
Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English cost.

Noun

cost m or f (plural costau)

  1. cost
  2. expense

Mutation

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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, cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/

Noun

onset (plural onsets)

  1. (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.
  2. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
  3. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
    Synonym: anlaut
    Antonym: coda
    Coordinate terms: nucleus, coda, rime
    Holonym: syllable
  4. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
  5. 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.
  6. (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.

Translations

Verb

onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)

  1. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
  2. (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

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