Rest

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Borrowed from Italian resto, from restare (“to remain”), from Latin restō.

Rest m (strong, genitive Restes or Rests, plural Reste, diminutive Restchen n)

1. rest, remainder, remnant
   • 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 41:

     Die kleine Stutzuhr auf dem Kamin, ein letzter Rest der Habe meiner Eltern, schlug zehn.

     The small bracket clock on the chimney, a last remnant of the belongings of my parents, chimed ten.

2. (chemistry) radical

• Rückstand
• Übriggebliebenes

• → Kashubian: reszta
• → Polish: reszta, resta (Middle Polish)
  • → Belarusian: рэ́шта (réšta)
  • → Ukrainian: ре́шта (réšta)
• → Silesian: reszta

Rest m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Rests or (with an article) Rest, feminine genitive Rest, plural Rests)

1. a surname

• “Rest” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Rest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Rest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rest” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /reʃt/

Rest m (plural Rester)

1. remainder, remnant

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary