fust

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Συνώνυμα

column shaft

frustum

scape

stay bracket

Μεταφράσεις

فوست

muffiger Geruch

fuste

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Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/fʌst/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Γαλλικά: fût

Συγγενές με Μέσα Γαλλικά: 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”).