Noun: pestis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | pestis |
| Plural | pestēs |
Genitive
| Singular | pestis |
| Plural | pestium |
Dative
| Singular | pestī |
| Plural | pestibus |
Accusative
| Singular | pestem |
| Plural | pestēs; pestīs |
Ablative
| Singular | peste |
| Plural | pestibus |
Vocative
| Singular | pestis |
| Plural | pestēs |
Sample Sentences
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Quam simul ac tālī persēnsit peste tenērī [...]. (And as soon as [Juno] sensed that [Dido was now] gripped by such a plague [of passion] ….
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(Erotic passion here is likened to a deadly disease.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.90]
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Ēripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi! (And rid me from this pernicious plague!) [c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 76.20]
Nouns inflected like pestis
scobis,
sellāris,
frātruēlis,
emphasis,
auriculāris,
draconcopedis,
baculāris,
concīvis,
emphyteosis,
hyoseris,
rebellis,
seselis,
apocatastasis,
padūlis,
prŏneptis,
decēris,
bipennis,
prognōsis,
scrobis,
versipellis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Equated with a supposed second element of Younger Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱 (kapastiš), the name of an illness, which beside ka-pastiš has its morphological boundaries also rendered kap-astiš and been identified with Persian کبست (kabast, “colocynth; deadly poison”), with seemingly the suffix as Persian دهمست (dahmast, “laurel”) if not اسپست (aspest, “lucerne”).
Verbs referencing "pestis"
Hungarian Nouns
pestis, English Nouns
pest, Danish Nouns
pest, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
pest, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
pest, German Nouns
Pest, Italian Nouns
peste, Portuguese Nouns
peste, Catalan Nouns
pesta.
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