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opt
English
Etymology
From French opter, from Latin optare “to choose” or "to select"
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pt/
- Rhymes: -?pt
Verb
opt (third-person singular simple present opts, present participle opting, simple past and past participle opted)
- (intransitive) To choose; select.
- He opted not to go.
- She opted for the salad rather than the steak.
Derived terms
- opt in
- opt out
- co-opt
Related terms
- option
- optional
Translations
Anagrams
- OTP, PTO, TPO, pot, top
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- oft
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uft?.
Adverb
opt (comparative optarr, superlative optast)
- often
- Hávamál, verse 135
- Hávamál, verse 135
Descendants
References
- opt in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin oct?, from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /opt/
Numeral
opt
- eight
Derived terms
- optzeci
- optime
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ost
English
Noun
ost (plural osts)
- Alternative form of oast
Anagrams
- OTS, OTs, TOS, TOs, TSO, Tso, sot
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Danish oost, Old Norse ostr, from Proto-Germanic *j?staz, *justaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??sd?]
Noun
ost c (singular definite osten, plural indefinite oste)
- cheese
Inflection
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German ?st (“east”), from Proto-Germanic *austr?. Cognate of Danish øster, Danish øst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?o?sd?]
Adverb
ost
- (obsolete) east
Noun
ost
- (obsolete) east
Synonyms
- øst
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?o?sd?]
Verb
ost
- past participle of ose
Estonian
Noun
ost (genitive ostu, partitive ostu)
- purchase
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: ást
Noun
ost
- accusative singular of ostur
French
Etymology
From Middle French ost, from Old French ost, host, from Latin hostis. An archaic or literary term referring to an army from the Middle Ages, taken from Middle French (i.e. no longer reflecting a popularly inherited form). The modern pronunciation is based on the spelling, differing from the original one, which was /o/. Has survived as an inherited form in the dialects of the Picardy and Maine regions as o (“herd”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st/
Noun
ost m (plural osts)
- (archaic, literary) host, army
Related terms
- hostile
Icelandic
Noun
ost
- indefinite accusative singular of ostur
Latvian
Etymology
From *uosti, from Proto-Baltic *uod-ti, from *?d-, from Proto-Indo-European *od-, *h?ed-, *h?ed- (“to smell”). Cognates include Lithuanian úosti, Old Czech jadati (“to explore, to investigate”), Ancient Greek ??? (óz?, “to smell”), Latin od?r (“smell”), Albanian amë (“unpleasant smell”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [uôst]
Verb
ost (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. ožu, od, ož, past odu)
- to smell (to perceive an odor)
- to smell, to sniff (to inhale air through the nose, usually several times, in order to try to perceive a smell)
- (figuratively, colloquial) to smell (to sense, to find out)
- to smell, to stink (to have, to spread a bad, unpleasant smell)
- to smell (to have, to spread a pleasant odor)
- (figuratively, colloquial) to smell (to suggest, make think of something, usually unpleasant)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (of "to sniff"): ost?t
- (of "to sense"): jaust
- (of "to stink"): smird?t, smakot
- (of "to spread pleasant odor"): smaržot
Derived terms
- prefixed verbs:
- other derived terms:
- osties
Related terms
- ost?t
- oža
References
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French ost, from Latin hostis.
Noun
ost m or f (plural osts)
- army
Descendants
- French: ost
References
- ost on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse ostr.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ust/
Noun
ost m (definite singular osten, indefinite plural oster, definite plural ostene)
- cheese
Derived terms
- ostekake
- ostesaus
- parmesanost
- sveitserost
References
- “ost” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse ostr.
Noun
ost m (definite singular osten, indefinite plural ostar, definite plural ostane)
- cheese
Derived terms
- ostekake
- ostesaus
- parmesanost
- sveitserost
References
- “ost” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *?staz. Cognate with Middle Low German ?st, Dutch oest (“knot, tree-stump”). Related with Proto-Germanic *astaz (“branch”), whence Old High German ast (German Ast), Gothic ???????????????? (asts).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o?st/
Noun
?st m
- knot in a tree
Declension
Old French
Alternative forms
- host
Etymology
From Latin hostis, hostem.
Noun
ost m or f
- army (armed military force)
Usage notes
- Has a regular declension as both a masculine and a feminine noun
- nominative singular oz, oblique plural oz, nominative plural ost when masculine
- nominative singular ost, oblique plural oz, nominative plural oz when feminine
- see Appendix:Old French nouns
Descendants
- Middle French: ost
- French: ost (archaic)
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Dutch oost.
Adjective
ost
- east
Romansch
Etymology
From a Germanic language.
Noun
ost m (plural osts)
- east
Synonyms
- (Sutsilvan) oriaint
Antonyms
- vest
Derived terms
- nordost
- sidost
Related terms
- nord
- sid
- nordvest
- sidvest
Slovene
Etymology
Back-formation from oster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó?st/
Noun
??st f
- sharp tip
Inflection
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish oster, from Old Norse ostr, from Proto-Germanic *justaz, from Proto-Indo-European *yaus-, *y?s-.
Noun
ost c
- cheese
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- öster
- öst
Adverb
ost (not comparable)
- east
Noun
ost c (uncountable)
- east
Related terms
- nordost
- nordväst
- norr
- öst
- öster
- ostlig
- söder
- syd
- sydost
- sydväst
- väst
- väster
See also
- (compass points) vädersträck;
References
- ost in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- ots, sot, sto
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *w?stä, maybe from Proto-Indo-European *weh?s-tu-; compare Ancient Greek ???? (ástu, “town”) and Sanskrit ?????? (v?stu). Compare Tocharian A wa?t.
Noun
ost m (gen. s. ostantse, obl. s. ost, nom. pl. ostwa)
- house
Usage notes
Often found in the phrases ostme? lät- (lit. “leave home”), meaning “to become a (Buddhist) monk”, and ostme? ltu, “Buddhist monk”. This term reflects the Sanskrit equivalent ?????????? (pravrajya?, “go forth”). Note that a similar expression, probably a calque, is also found in Chinese ?? (“renounce the family to become a Buddhist monk or nun”).
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
ost m
- bough, branch
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