different between pest vs misfortune

English

Etymology

From Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /p?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

pest (plural pests)

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
3. An annoying person, a nuisance.
4. An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
5. An invasive weed.

Synonyms

• (creature): bug

Related terms

• garden pest
• pester
• pesting
• pesthole
• pesthouse
• pesticidal, pesticide
• pestiferous
• pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

Translations

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

Danish

Etymology

From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/, [p??sd?]

Noun

pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

1. (medicine) plague
2. (figuratively) pestilence

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

pest f (uncountable)

1. A plague, pest, pestilence.
2. A specific bovine plague
3. An obnoxious person

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: pes

Verb

pest

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
2. imperative of pesten

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

Noun

pest f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. pressure, oppression

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “pest”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest f or m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

References

• “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest m (definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f (definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

• byllepest
• forpeste
• pestepidemi

References

• “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?st?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pê?st/

Noun

p?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional, literary) fist

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?st?. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ????, pest, Slovak päs?, Russian ????? (pjast?, “middle part of the hand”) and ????????? (zapjást?je), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) ??????? (pestnik), ?????? (pesnik), ???????? (pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek ????? (pugm?), English fist, German Faust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pé?st/

Noun

p??st f

1. (anatomy) fist

Inflection

Derived terms

• pésten

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pestis.

Noun

pest c

1. A plague
2. A pest; something deeply annoying

Derived terms

• blodpest
• böldpest
• lungpest
• pest och pina
• välja mellan pest och kolera

English

Etymology

mis- +? fortune

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?s?f??t??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?s?f??t?u?n/

Noun

misfortune (countable and uncountable, plural misfortunes)

1. (uncountable) Bad luck.
   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.

   The worst tour I have ever had the misfortune to experience.

   It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. - Ulysses S. Grant

2. (countable) an undesirable event such as an accident
   • 1839, Charles Robert Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle., Chapter X

     The snowstorm, which was the cause of their misfortune, happened in the middle of January, corresponding to our July, and in the latitude of Durham!

   She had to come to terms with a number of misfortunes.

Synonyms

• (bad luck): mishap, misluck, mischance, ill luck, hard luck, tough luck, luckless
• (undesirable event): adversity, nakba

Antonyms

• (bad luck): luck, good luck, fortune, good fortune
• (undesirable event): fortuity

Related terms

• misfortunate

Translations

Anagrams

• uniformest