peste
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- (diseases) plague
- (figurative) pest, nuisance person
- (figurative) urchin mischievous child
Etymology
Borrowed 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
- pestiduct English
- pestibilis Latin
- pestifer Latin
- pestilentus Latin
- pestis Latin
- Pest German
- pestis Hungarian
- impestare Italian
- pestifero Italian
- pestoso Italian
- peste French
- peste Spanish, Castilian
- *pesti- Proto-Indo-European
- pest Norwegian Bokmål
- peste Portuguese
- pest Norwegian Nynorsk
- Pescht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- peste Middle French