Blend ofMiddle Englishhasten(verb), (compareDutchhaasten,Germanhasten,Danishhaste,Swedishhasta(“to hasten, rush”)) andMiddle Englishhast(“haste”,noun), fromOld Frenchhaste (whenceFrenchhâte),[1] from OldFrankish*hai(f)st(“violence”),[2] fromProto-Germanic*haifstiz(“struggle, conflict”), fromProto-Indo-European*ḱeyp-(“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin toOld Frisianhāst,hāste(“haste”),Old Englishhǣst(“violence”),Old Englishhǣste(“violent, impetuous, vehement”,adjective),Old Norseheift /heipt(“feud”),Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃(haifsts,“rivalry”). Cognate withGermanheftig(“vehement”) andDanishheftig(“vehement”).(Canthis(+) etymology besourced?)
haste (usuallyuncountable,pluralhastes)
- Speed;swiftness;dispatch.
We were running late so we finished our meal inhaste.
2017, Russell M. Peterson,The Armies of Forever, page368:There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in theirhastes to be the first to sign away their souls.
- (obsolete)Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion;precipitance;vehemence.
speed, swiftness, dispatch
- Azerbaijani:tələsiklik,qaçaqaç
- Bulgarian:бързина (bg) f(bǎrzina),бързане n(bǎrzane)
- Catalan:pressa (ca) f
- Czech:spěch (cs) m
- Danish:hast c
- Esperanto:hasto
- French:hâte (fr) f
- German:Eile (de) f,Hast (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek:σπουδή f(spoudḗ)
- Hungarian:sietség (hu)
- Ingrian:kippu,kiire
- Irish:dithneas m
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:پەلە(pele)
- Latgalian:skuba f,strāpuošona f,drystuošona f
- Latin:celeritas f,festinatio,properantia,festinantia,concitus m
- Plautdietsch:Haust f
- Polish:pośpiech (pl) m
- Old Polish:śpiech
- Portuguese:pressa (pt)
- Romanian:grabă (ro) f
- Russian:спе́шка (ru) f(spéška)
- Scottish Gaelic:cabhag f,deann f
- Spanish:prisa (es) f,premura (es),acucia (es) f,priesa (es) f,apuro (es) m
- Swedish:brådska (sv) c
- Turkish:
- Ottoman Turkish:عجله(ʼacele)
- Ukrainian:поспіх m(pospix)
- Unami:shaelìntàmëwakàn
- Walloon:håsse (wa) f
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haste (third-person singular simple presenthastes,present participlehasting,simple past and past participlehasted)
- (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; tohasten.
c.1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii],page168:Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſohaſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
- (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, inA Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)[1]:The city is amaz'd, for Syllahastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
1825, Samuel Johnson,The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes[2]:Hehastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
1881, Thomas Carlyle,Past and Present[3]:Samsonhastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.
1913,Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published1963, page133:Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them tohaste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.
- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian)/has̺te/[has̺.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Southern)/as̺te/[as̺.t̪e]
- Rhymes:-as̺te,-e
- Hyphenation:has‧te
haste inan
- verbal noun ofhasi(“to begin”);beginning
- Synonyms:hasiera,hastapen
- “haste”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “haste”, inOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary],Euskaltzaindia,1987–2005
haste (imperative)
- second-personpluralimperative ofhasit
haste
- hastily
haste
- inflection ofhasten:
- first-personsingularpresent
- first/third-personsingularsubjunctive I
- singularimperative
haste
- (colloquial)contraction ofhast +du
FromOld Frenchhaste.
haste f (pluralhastes)
- haste,speed
haste (present tensehastar,past tensehasta,past participlehasta,passive infinitivehastast,present participlehastande,imperativehaste/hast)
- alternative form ofhasta
Borrowed fromFrankish*hai(f)st(“violence, haste”), fromProto-Germanic*haifstiz(“conflict, struggle”).
hasteoblique singular, f (oblique pluralhastes,nominative singularhaste,nominative pluralhastes)[1]
- urgency,haste,speed
Fromhasta.
haste f (pluralhastes)
- pole
- (botany)stem,stalk
