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vest

See also: Vest, věst, vést, and vešt

English

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Etymology

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From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɛst/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

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vest (plural vests)

  1. (Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
    Synonym: (Britain) waistcoat
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
  2. (British) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
    Synonyms: singlet, (US) tank top, (US) undershirt
  3. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
  4. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
    • 2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, →ISBN, page 162:
      He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?
  5. A vestment.
  6. Clothing generally; array; garb.
    • 1800, William Wordsworth, [unnamed poem] (classified under Inscriptions)
      Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
  7. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

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Verb

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vest (third-person singular simple present vests, present participle vesting, simple past and past participle vested)

  1. (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
    • 1673, John Milton, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint:
      Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
    • 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid:
      With ether vested, and a purple sky.
  2. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
    to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
    • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, To Mr. Howard - An Ode:
      Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.
  3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
    The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
  4. (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
    to vest a person with an estate
    an estate is vested in possession
  5. (law, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
    Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
  6. (financial, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.
    My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
    • 2005, Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options, page 104:
      If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.
    • 2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC
      Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.
  7. (obsolete) To invest; to put.
    to vest money in goods, land, or houses

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Danish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

Noun

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vest c (singular definite vesten, not used in plural form)

  1. the west
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Declension of vest
common
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative vest vesten
genitive vests vestens
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Adverb

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vest

  1. toward the west, westwards

Etymology 2

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From French veste.

Noun

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vest c (singular definite vesten, plural indefinite veste)

  1. A vest.
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Declension of vest
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vest vesten veste vestene
genitive vests vestens vestes vestenes

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch vest, veste. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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vest f (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

  1. fortified wall, city wall
  2. moat
  3. boulevard
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French veste, from Italian veste, from Latin vestis.

Noun

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vest n (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

  1. vest, cardigan, waistcoat
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German

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Adjective

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vest

  1. Obsolete spelling of fest.

Latvian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *westéi. Cognate with Lithuanian vesti, Polish wieść, Russian вести (vesti), Slovene vesti.

Verb

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vest (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present vedu, ved, ved, past vedu)

  1. to lead

Conjugation

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conjugation of vest
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
(pavēles izteiksme)
Present
(tagadne) 		Past
(pagātne) 		Future
(nākotne)
1st pers. sg. es vedu vedu vedīšu —
2nd pers. sg. tu ved vedi vedīsi ved
3rd pers. sg. viņš, viņa ved veda vedīs lai ved
1st pers. pl. mēs vedam vedām vedīsim vedīsim
2nd pers. pl. jūs vedat vedāt vedīsiet,
vedīsit 		vediet
3rd pers. pl. viņi, viņas ved veda vedīs lai ved
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present vedot Present Active 1 (Adj.) vedošs
Past esot vedis Present Active 2 (Adv.) vezdams
Future vedīšot Present Active 3 (Adv.) vedot
Imperative lai vedot Present Active 4 (Obj.) vedam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) Past Active vedis
Present vestu Present Passive vedams
Past būtu vedis Past Passive vests
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative (būt) jāved Infinitive (nenoteiksme) vest
Conjunctive 1 esot jāved Negative Infinitive nevest
Conjunctive 2 jāvedot Verbal noun vešana

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Danish vest, from Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

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vest n (abbreviation V) (indeclinable)

  2. west (compass point)
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Etymology 2

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From Latin vestis, via French [Term?] and Italian [Term?].

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vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vester, definite plural vestene)

  2. a waistcoat
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

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vest n (indeclinable) (abbreviation: V)

  1. west (compass point)
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Etymology 2

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From Latin vestis, via French and Italian.

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vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vestar, definite plural vestane)

  1. a waistcoat
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Old Swedish

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vēst

  1. second-person present indicative of vita

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German West.

Noun

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vest n (uncountable)

  1. west
    Synonyms: apus, asfințit, occident

Declension

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declension of vest (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) vest vestul
genitive/dative (unui) vest vestului
vocative vestule

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Native Romanian
miazănoapte
apus   răsărit
miazăzi
Borrowed from French/German
nord-vest nord nord-est
vest   est
sud-vest sud sud-est

Romansch

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Etymology

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From a Germanic language.

Noun

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vest m

  1. west

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Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věstь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *waid-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know, perceive”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʋêːst/
  • Hyphenation: vest

Noun

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vȇst f (Cyrillic spelling ве̑ст)

  1. report, news
    Da li si mu kazala vesti? ― Did you tell him the news?

Declension

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Declension of vest
singular plural
nominative vȇst vesti
genitive vesti véstī
dative vesti vesti
accusative vest vesti
vocative vesti vesti
locative vesti vestima
instrumental vešću / vesti vestima

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References

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  • “vest”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *věstь.

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Noun

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vẹ̑st f

  1. conscience

Inflection

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 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing. vést
gen. sing. vestí
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		vést vestí vestí
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		vestí vestí vestí
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		vésti vestéma vestém
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		vést vestí vestí
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		vésti vestéh vestéh
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		vestjó vestéma vestmí
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