tost

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of toss
   • 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 28:

     A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.

tost (countable and uncountable, plural tosts)

1. Obsolete spelling of toast.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 52, column 1:

     Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.

• Otts, tots, TOTs, TSTO, TTOs, stot

Inherited from Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɔst]

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

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tost

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. second-person singular/plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

From Old Irish tost,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔsˠt̪ˠ/^[2], /t̪ˠɞsˠt̪ˠ/^[3]

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Bí i do thost! ― Be silent!, Be quiet!, Shut up!

   Is binn béal ina thost. (proverb)

   A silent mouth is sweet.

2. verbal noun of tost

• tostach

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

   Thost sé bomaite.

   He remained silent a while.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tost”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tost”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 748
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tostaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 748
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tost”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tost”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Borrowed from Sicilian tostu and/or Italian tosto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔst/

tost (feminine singular tosta, plural tosti)

1. shameless, brazen-faced, obscene, impudent

From Old French toster.

tost

1. alternative form of tosten

A back-formation from tosten.

• toste, toost

• IPA^(key): /tɔːst/
• Rhymes: -ɔːst

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

• “tōst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 May 2018.

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔst/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈtoːt/

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

• French: tôt
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: toste
  • Galician: toste
  • Portuguese: toste

• Brachet, A. (1873) “tot”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
• Etymology and history of “chignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Celtic *tustus, from the same root as tóe. Several phonological peculiarities relating to the evolution of this term, such as irregular final -st (which should have become -s(s) /s/) and the initial consonant fluctuating between t- and s-, are probably due to contamination from its synonym, socht. This contamination intensified over time, giving birth to Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish forms like tocht and sosd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtost/

tost m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. silence

   Synonym: socht

• Middle Irish: tost, tocht
  • Irish: tost
  • Scottish Gaelic: tost

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from English toast. Doublet of toast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔst/

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• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Syllabification: tost

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

   Synonym: grzanka

2. grilled cheese, toastie, melt

• tost in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• tosd

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

• IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔs̪t̪]

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “tost”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[2], Stirling, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From English toast.

tost (definite accusative tostu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Compare Italian toast

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /toːsd/, [tʰoːst]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tɔsd/, [tʰɔst]
• Rhymes: -ɔsd

From Middle Welsh tost, perhaps from Latin tostus (“roasted, parched”) via a Proto-Brythonic *tost, though the semantic development is unclear.

tost (feminine singular tost, plural tostion, equative tosted, comparative tostach, superlative tostaf)

1. ill
2. sore

• pen tost (“headache”)

Borrowed from English toast, from Middle English tosten, from Old French toster, from Latin tostus.

tost m (uncountable)

1. toast

   Synonym: bara cras

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tost”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies