trest

 

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛst]

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trest m inan

1. punishment, penalty, sentence

   trest smrti ― death penalty

   uložit trest ― to penalize

• “trest”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “trest”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “trest”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

• trete, trist

From Old French treste, variant of trestre, trastre, from Latin trānstrum; doublet of traunsom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛst(ə)/, /ˈtrɛːt(ə)/

trest (plural trestes)

1. trestle, support
2. (rare) tripod

• trestel

• Scots: trest

• “trest(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trъstь.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtrɛst/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈtrɛst/

trest f

1. cane, reed

original

especially later

• Czech: tresť

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “trest”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

trest m (feminine singular tresta, masculine plural trests, feminine plural trestas)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Alternative form of trist (“sad”)

• (Sutsilvan) truli

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) allegher
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) legher
• (Sursilvan) leger

From Middle English trest, from Old French trastre, from Latin trānstrum; related to English trestle.

trest (plural trests)

1. A beam.
2. A stool.