rest
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: rĕst, IPA(key): /ɹɛst/Category:English 1-syllable words#RESTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#REST
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#RESTAudio (US): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#RESTAudio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛst#RESTCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛst/1 syllable#REST
- Homophone: wrestCategory:English terms with homophones#REST
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#REST rest, reste, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Old English#REST ræst, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#REST *rastu, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#REST *rastō, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#REST *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (airime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#REST, Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.
Noun
rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)Category:English lemmas#RESTCategory:English nouns#RESTCategory:English uncountable nouns#RESTCategory:English countable nouns#RESTCategory:English countable nouns#RESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- Category:en:Sleep#REST(uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#REST, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- Synonyms: sleep, slumber
- I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Category:en:Rest#REST(countableCategory:English countable nouns#REST) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- Synonyms: break, repose, time off
- We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Category:en:Peace#REST(uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#REST) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- Synonyms: peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquility
- It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 3:30:
- And the land had rest fourscore years.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#REST, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- The ocean was finally at rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#REST, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#REST) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- Synonym: peace
- She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Category:en:Silence#REST
- (musicCategory:en:Music#REST, countableCategory:English countable nouns#REST) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- Hyponyms: breve rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, minim rest, quaver rest, semibreve rest, semiquaver rest
- Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (musicCategory:en:Music#REST, countableCategory:English countable nouns#REST) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (physicsCategory:en:Physics#REST, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#REST) Absence of motion.
- Antonym: motion
- The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (snookerCategory:en:Snooker#REST, countableCategory:English countable nouns#REST) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Hypernym: bridge
- Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#REST) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Synonyms: (of a telephone) cradle, support
- She put the phone receiver back in its rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Hyponyms: arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest
- Category:en:Armor#RESTA projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- their visors closed, their lances in the restCategory:English terms with quotations#REST
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
- halfway houses and travellers' rests
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- in dust our final rest, and native homeCategory:English terms with quotations#REST
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy xii:9:
- Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
- (poetryCategory:en:Poetry#REST) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- 1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs:
- a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual restCategory:English terms with quotations#REST
- Category:en:Games#REST(datedCategory:English dated terms#REST) A set or game at tennis.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- a change is as good as a rest
- armrest, arm rest
- at rest
- beauty rest
- bedrest
- benchrest
- bookrest
- breve rest
- chapel of rest
- chinrest
- chin rest
- chopstick rest
- come to rest
- crotchet rest
- day of rest
- demisemiquaver rest
- Diggers Rest
- eighth rest
- elbow rest
- eternal rest
- foot rest
- footrest
- give it a rest
- gun rest
- half rest
- handrest
- head rest
- headrest
- hemidemisemiquaver rest
- incisal rest
- knife-rest
- knife rest
- lance rest
- lay to rest
- leg rest
- mesonephric rest
- migratory restlessness
- minim rest
- neck rest
- no rest for the weary
- no rest for the wicked
- palmrest
- parade rest
- put to rest
- quarter rest
- quaver rest
- rest and residue
- rest and vest
- rest area
- rest centre
- rest day
- rest energy
- restframe
- restful
- rest-harrow
- Rest Haven
- resthold
- rest home
- resthouse
- restless
- rest mass
- rest of advantage
- rest period
- rest position
- restroom
- rest step
- rest stop
- rest stroke
- restward
- semibreve rest
- semiquaver rest
- set up one's rest
- sixteenth rest
- sixty-fourth rest
- slide rest
- spoon rest
- thirty-second rest
- toolrest, tool-rest
- Travelers Rest
- Travellers Rest
- turning rest
- unrest
- Walthard cell rest
- whole rest
- Wolffian rest
- wrist rest
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#REST resten, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Old English#REST restan, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#REST *rastijan (“to rest”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#REST *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with Dutch rusten (“to rest”), Middle Low German resten (“to rest”), German rasten (“to rest”), Danish raste (“to rest”), Swedish rasta (“to rest”).
Verb
rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)Category:English lemmas#RESTCategory:English verbs#RESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- My day's work is over; now I will rest.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 23:12:
- Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- There rest, if any rest can harbour there.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#REST, reflexiveCategory:English reflexive verbs#REST, copulativeCategory:English copulative verbs#REST) To put into a state of rest.
- We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
- With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- The blame seems to rest with your father.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To rely or depend on.
- The decision rests on getting a bank loan.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To be based on; to rely on something for proof or explanation
- Synonym: repose (formal)
- 1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo:
- On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#REST, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST, reflexiveCategory:English reflexive verbs#REST) To lean, lie, or lay.
- A column rests on its pedestal.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- I rested my head in my hands.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- She rested against my shoulder.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- I rested against the wall for a minute.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#REST, lawCategory:en:Law#REST, USCategory:American English#REST) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- The defense rests, your Honor.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- I rest my case.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To lie dormant.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#REST) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:
- I sing to him that rests below,Category:English terms with quotations#REST
And, since the grasses round me wave,
I take the grasses of the grave,
And make them pipes whereon to blow.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 19:
- to rest in Heaven's determinationCategory:English terms with quotations#REST
Synonyms
Troponyms
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 3
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#RESTCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh₂-#RESTFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#REST reste, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#REST reste, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#REST rester (“to remain”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#REST restō (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + stō (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English lāf (“remnant, remainder”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
rest (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#RESTCategory:English nouns#RESTCategory:English uncountable nouns#RESTCategory:English uncountable nouns#RESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#REST) That which remains.
- Synonyms: lave, remainder
- She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- 1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:
- Plato and the rest of the philosophersCategory:English terms with quotations#REST
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter XI, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
- Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
- It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.Category:English terms with quotations#REST
- (UKCategory:British English#REST, financeCategory:en:Finance#REST) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
Synonyms
- (that which remains): See also Thesaurus:remainder
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#RESTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#REST resten, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#REST rester, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#REST restō.
Verb
rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)Category:English lemmas#RESTCategory:English verbs#RESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST
- Rest you merry.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST("Be glad, be joyful"; later: "Good luck to you.")
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#REST, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#REST) To keep a certain way.
- God rest you merry, gentlemen.Category:English terms with usage examples#REST("May God grant you happiness and peace, gentlemen"; literally: "May God keep you happy and in peace, gentlemen.")
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 5
Aphetic form of arrest.
Verb
rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)Category:English lemmas#RESTCategory:English verbs#RESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
Anagrams
Category:English ergative verbs#RESTCzech
Etymology
Derived from GermanCategory:Czech terms derived from German#REST Rest.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɛst]Category:Czech terms with IPA pronunciation#REST
- Hyphenation: rest
Noun
rest m inanCategory:Czech lemmas#RESTCategory:Czech nouns#RESTCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Czech masculine nouns#RESTCategory:Czech inanimate nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- (mostly in plural) backlog, unfinished business
- arrear(s)
Declension
Further reading
- “rest”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “rest”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Danish terms borrowed from French#RESTCategory:Danish terms derived from French#REST reste, probably via German Rest.
Pronunciation
Noun
rest c (singular definite resten, plural indefinite rester)Category:Danish lemmas#RESTCategory:Danish nouns#RESTCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- remnant, remainder, rest
- (in the plural) scraps of food
- (mathematicsCategory:da:Mathematics#REST) residue, remainder
Derived terms
References
- “rest” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#RESTCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#REST reste, from Middle FrenchCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle French#REST reste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛst/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#REST
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#RESTAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: rest
- Rhymes: -ɛstCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst#RESTCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst/1 syllable#REST
Noun
rest f (plural resten, diminutive restje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#RESTCategory:Dutch nouns#RESTCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#RESTCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Dutch feminine nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- rest (that which remains)
- Synonyms: overblijfsel, overschot
Derived terms
Descendants
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Northern Italian dialect, compare Emilian rest, Piedmontese rest, Romagnol rést, Italian resto (“rest”), from restare, from LatinCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Latin#REST restō (“to stay behind, remain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɛʃt]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#REST
- Hyphenation: rest
- Rhymes: -ɛʃtCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛʃt#RESTCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛʃt/1 syllable#REST
Adjective
restCategory:Hungarian lemmas#RESTCategory:Hungarian adjectives#RESTCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST (comparative restebb, superlative legrestebb)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rest | restek |
| accusative | restet | resteket |
| dative | restnek | resteknek |
| instrumental | resttel | restekkel |
| causal-final | restért | restekért |
| translative | restté | restekké |
| terminative | restig | restekig |
| essive-formal | restként | restekként |
| essive-modal | restül | — |
| inessive | restben | restekben |
| superessive | resten | resteken |
| adessive | restnél | resteknél |
| illative | restbe | restekbe |
| sublative | restre | restekre |
| allative | resthez | restekhez |
| elative | restből | restekből |
| delative | restről | restekről |
| ablative | resttől | restektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
resté | resteké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
restéi | restekéi |
Derived terms
(Expressions):
Further reading
- rest in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Ladin
Noun
rest m (plural resc)Category:Ladin lemmas#RESTCategory:Ladin nouns#RESTCategory:Ladin entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Ladin masculine nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from French#RESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from French#REST reste.
Noun
rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural rester, definite plural restene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#RESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#RESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- remainder, rest
- resten av ― the rest ofCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples#REST
- rester ― remains, remnantsCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples#REST
Derived terms
References
- “rest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from French#RESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from French#REST reste.
Noun
rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural restar, definite plural restane)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#RESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#RESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- remainder, rest
- resten av ― the rest ofCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples#REST
- restar ― remains, remnantsCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples#REST
Derived terms
References
- “rest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
rest fCategory:Old English lemmas#RESTCategory:Old English nouns#RESTCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Old English feminine nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- alternative form of ræst
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rest | resta, reste |
| accusative | reste | resta, reste |
| genitive | reste | resta |
| dative | reste | restum |
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#RESTCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#REST reste.
Pronunciation
Noun
rest n (plural resturi)Category:Romanian lemmas#RESTCategory:Romanian nouns#RESTCategory:Romanian countable nouns#RESTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- rest (remainder)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | rest | restul | resturi | resturile |
| genitive-dative | rest | restului | resturi | resturilor |
| vocative | restule | resturilor | ||
See also
Noun
rest n (uncountable)Category:Romanian lemmas#RESTCategory:Romanian nouns#RESTCategory:Romanian uncountable nouns#RESTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)
- Poftim restul de la înghețată, băiete.
- Here's the change from the ice-cream, son.
Usage notes
- The use of the meaning for change is restrictive to money, usually in small sums, taken after making a transaction. To describe such change when it is in one's pocket or lying around, the term mărunțiș is preferred.
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | rest | restul |
| genitive-dative | rest | restului |
| vocative | restule | |
Swedish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from French#RESTCategory:Swedish terms derived from French#REST reste, from LatinCategory:Swedish terms derived from Latin#REST restāre (“remain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rest cCategory:Swedish lemmas#RESTCategory:Swedish nouns#RESTCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#RESTCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#RESTCategory:Pages with entries#RESTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#REST
- (in the plural) remainder, rest (what remains)
- Resten är gula.
- The rest are yellows.
- (mathematicsCategory:sv:Mathematics#REST) remainder
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- (chiefly in the plural) leftover
- Idag blir det rester
- Today we're having leftovers
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | rest | rests |
| definite | resten | restens | |
| plural | indefinite | rester | resters |
| definite | resterna | resternas |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
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Verb
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