fust

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
2. The shaft (main body) of a column.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
2. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

Adj

Nonstandard form of first.

Adv

Nonstandard form of first.

Sinònims

column shaft

frustum

scape

stay bracket

Traduccions

فوست

muffiger Geruch

fuste

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/fʌst/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb francès: fût

Cognat amb francès mitjà: fuste

In summary

Borrowed from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”) or *gʷʰen- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).