pest
English
/pɛst/
noun
Definitions
- (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
- Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
- An annoying person, a nuisance.
- An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
- An invasive weed.
Etymology
Derived from Middle French peste derived from Latin pestis (pest, plague, disease, destruction).
Origin
Latin
pestis
Gloss
pest, plague, disease, destruction
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
症, 疾
Emoji
🦟 🪰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- agropesticide English
- antipest English
- antipesticide English
- bepester English
- biopesticidal English
- biopesticide English
- empest English
- hole English
- house English
- impest English
- mycopesticide English
- nanopesticide English
- nonpest English
- nonpesticidal English
- nonpesticide English
- pester English
- pesterable English
- pesterer English
- pesterest English
- pestereth English
- pesterment English
- pesterous English
- pestersome English
- pestery English
- pestful English
- pesthole English
- pesthouse English
- pesticidal English
- pesticidally English
- pesticide English
- pestiduct English
- pestiferous English
- pestiferously English
- pestiferousness English
- pestify English
- pesting English
- pestlike English
- pestological English
- pestologist English
- pestology English
- pesty English
- pestibilis Latin
- pestifer Latin
- pestiferus Latin
- pestilentus Latin
- pestis Latin
- Pest German
- pestis Hungarian
- peste Italian
- pest Dutch, Flemish
- pesticide Dutch, Flemish
- peste French
- peste bubonique French
- peste noire French
- pester French
- pesteux French
- pesticide French
- peste Spanish, Castilian
- *pesti- Proto-Indo-European
- pest Norwegian Bokmål
- peste Portuguese
- pest Norwegian Nynorsk
- pest Danish
- Pescht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- peste Middle French
- ប៉េស្ត Central Khmer
- hole
- pesty
- house
- impest
- empest
- pester
- pestful
- pestery
- pestify
- nonpest
- pesting
- pesterer
- pestlike
- antipest
- pesthole
- bepester
- pesterest
- pesticide
- pesterous
- pestology
- pesthouse
- pestereth
- pestiduct
- pestersome
- pesterable
- pesticidal
- pesterment
- pestologist
- pestiferous
- pesticidally
- nonpesticide
- pestological
- biopesticide
- biopesticidal
- agropesticide
- pestiferously
- nanopesticide
- antipesticide
- nonpesticidal
- mycopesticide
- pestiferousness