Senso (Inglese)
Concetti
ugule all’aria
essere famelico
al volo
Opposto di
loose, penetrable, weak, light, behind, slow, local, slow train, stopper, loosely, lightly, slowly
sinonimi
abstain
in haste
very fast
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/fɑːst/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology. The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).
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