infesto
Esperanto
editNoun
editinfesto (accusative singular infeston, plural infestoj, accusative plural infestojn)
Italian
editVerb
editinfesto
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom īnfestus (“hostile, unsafe”) + -ō (denominal verb suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈfes.to/, [ĩːˈfɛs̠t̪ɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈfes.to/, [iɱˈfɛst̪o]
Verb
editīnfestō (present infinitive īnfestāre, perfect active īnfestāvī, supine īnfestātum); first conjugation
- to vex (a person) repeatedly, trouble, harass, molest (also used of adverse physical effects, circumstances, Fortune)
- to make (a place) unsafe by repeated attacks; to infest
- to have a bad effect on, to injure, damage, impair
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: infestar
- English: infest
- French: infester
- Galician: infestar
- Italian: infestare
- Portuguese: infestar
- Spanish: infestar
Adjective
editīnfestō
References
edit- “infestō” on page 986 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “īnfestus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 303
Further reading
edit- “infesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infesto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin īnfestus.[1]
Adjective
editinfesto (feminine infesta, masculine plural infestos, feminine plural infestas)
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editinfesto
References
edit- ^ “infesto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Spanish
editVerb
editinfesto
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