rester

Meaning

1. to stay
2. to remain, be left over
3. to stay, to remain (to continue to have a particular quality)
4. to rest
5. to live

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁɛs.te/

Etymology

From Middle French rester, from Old French rester, from Latin restāre. According to the Trésor informatisé, the Old French is a borrowing from Latin. What speaks in favour of this is the preservation of [st], which in a popular word should be simplified to [t] (yielding modern *rêter). Alternatively it could be inherited, but influenced by the Latin.

Sentences

Ainsi tu vas rester gueux comme un rat , Père Ubu.

So you're going to stay beggarly like a rat, Father Ubu.