different between cost vs tost

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)

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.

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)

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

English

Verb

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of toss

Anagrams

• TSTO, stot, tots

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tost

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. second-person singular/plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s?t??/

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Proverb:

2. verbal noun of tost

Declension

Verb

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tost" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tost” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “tostaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “tost” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tost” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French toster.

Verb

tost

1. Alternative form of tosten

Etymology 2

A back-formation from tosten.

Alternative forms

• toste, toost

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

Descendants

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

References

• “t?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: tôt
• ? Old Portuguese: toste
  • Galician: toste
  • Portuguese: toste

References

• Bratchet, A. (1873) , “tot”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
• “chignon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tustus, from the same root as tóe. Several phonological peculiarities relating to the evolution of this term, such as irregular final -st (which should have become -s(s) /s/) and the initial consonant fluctuating between t- and s-, are probably due to contamination from its synonym, socht. This contamination intensified over time, giving birth to Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish forms like tocht and sosd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tost/

Noun

tost m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. silence

   Synonym: socht

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tost, tocht
  • Irish: tost
  • Scottish Gaelic: tost

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From English toast, from Middle English tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

Declension

Further reading

• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• tosd

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???s?t?]

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

Mutation

References

• “tost” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Turkish

Etymology

From English toast.

Noun

tost (definite accusative tosdu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian toast

Noun

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tostus.

Adjective

tost (feminine singular tost, plural tostion, equative tosted, comparative tostach, superlative tostaf)

1. ill
2. sore

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

tost m (uncountable)

1. toast

   Synonym: bara cras

Mutation