infesto
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈfesto/
- Rhymes: -esto
- Hyphenation: in‧fes‧to
Noun
infesto (accusative singular infeston, plural infestoj, accusative plural infestojn)
Italian
Verb
infesto
- first-person singular present indicative of infestare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From īnfestus (“hostile, unsafe”) + -ō (denominal verb suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈfɛs.tɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈfɛs.t̪o]
Verb
īnfestō (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
Conjugation of īnfestō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- īnfestātiō
- īnfestātor
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: infestar
- English: infest
- French: infester
- Galician: infestar
- Italian: infestare
- Portuguese: infestar
- Spanish: infestar
Adjective
īnfestō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of īnfestus
References
- “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
- “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
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈfɛs.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩˈfɛʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈfɛs.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩˈfɛʃ.tu/
- Rhymes: -ɛstu, -ɛʃtu
- Hyphenation: in‧fes‧to
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin īnfestus.[1]
Adjective
infesto (feminine infesta, masculine plural infestos, feminine plural infestas)
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
infesto
- first-person singular present indicative of infestar
References
- ^ “infesto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Verb
infesto
- first-person singular present indicative of infestar