mast

mast (nominative singular)
masti (nominative plural)
masti (genitive singular)
mastí (genitive plural)
masti (dative singular)
mastím (dative plural)
mastem (dative plural)
mast (accusative singular)
masti (accusative plural)
masti (singular vocative)
masti (plural vocative)
masti (locative singular)
mastích (locative plural)
mastech (locative plural)
mastí (instrumental singular)
mastmi (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech mast, from Proto-Slavic *mastь.


mast

head

mast c (singular definite masten, plural indefinite master)

masten (definite singular)
master (indefinite plural)

Borrowed from Middle Low German mast, from Old Saxon *mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast.


mast

mast (pole on a ship, to which sails can be rigged)

nl-noun

mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

masten (plural)
mastje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: mas

Negerhollands: mast

→ Japanese: マスト

From Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.


mast

mast, fodder for pigs or other animals made up of acorns and beechnuts

From Middle Dutch mast, from the root of met (“meat”), similar to German Mast.


mast

(nautical, communication, aviation) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).

(naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.

From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”).
Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мост (most, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.


mast

en-verb

mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

masts (present singular third-person)
masting (participle present)
masted (participle past)
masted (past)


mast

She ſhut them ſtraight in ſties; and gaue them meate / Oke-maſt, and beech, and Cornell fruite, they eate, […]

1614–1615, Homer, “The Tenth Booke of Homers Odysses”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC, page 151:

The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.

1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 93, lines 755–756:

[T]hey feed and grovel like Swine under an Oak, filling themſelves with the Maſt, but never ſo much as looking up, either to the Bows that bore, or the Hands that ſhook it down.

1715, Robert South, “A Sermon on Proverbs i. 32.”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, pages 73–74:

He […] would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast, squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.

1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 162:

The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.

en-noun

mast (countable and uncountable, plural masts)

From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”) and mæstan (“to fatten”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.


mast

(of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.

Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.

1985, Michael Fenner, Seed ecology, page 33:

However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.

2004, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page 28:

Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.

2008, Chris Rowthorn, Muhammad Cohen, China Williams, Borneo, page 50:

(agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.


mast

(bodybuilding slang) The anabolic steroid drostanolone propionate, also known as Masteron


mast

Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, curs'd his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth challenged his enemy to double his sum.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, billiards) A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.

From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.


mast

masti (genitive)
masti (partitive)
mast (nominative singular)
mastid (nominative plural)
mast (accusative nominative singular)
mastid (accusative nominative plural)
masti (accusative genitive singular)
mastid (accusative genitive plural)
masti (genitive singular)
mastide (genitive plural)
masti (partitive singular)
maste (partitive plural)
mastisid (partitive plural)
masti (illative singular)
mastisse (illative singular)
mastidesse (illative plural)
mastesse (illative plural)
mastis (inessive singular)
mastides (inessive plural)
mastes (inessive plural)
mastist (elative singular)
mastidest (elative plural)
mastest (elative plural)
mastile (allative singular)
mastidele (allative plural)
mastele (allative plural)
mastil (adessive singular)
mastidel (adessive plural)
mastel (adessive plural)
mastilt (ablative singular)
mastidelt (ablative plural)
mastelt (ablative plural)
mastiks (singular translative)
mastideks (plural translative)
masteks (plural translative)
mastini (singular terminative)
mastideni (plural terminative)
mastina (essive singular)
mastidena (essive plural)
mastita (abessive singular)
mastideta (abessive plural)
mastiga (comitative singular)
mastidega (comitative plural)

→ Ingrian: mašti

From either Middle Low German mast or German Mast.


mast

French: mât


mast

nb-noun-c

mast f or m (definite singular masta or masten, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

masta (definite singular)
masten (definite singular)
master (indefinite plural)
mastene (definite plural)


mast

mast f (definite singular masta, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

masta (definite singular)
master (indefinite plural)
mastene (definite plural)
master (alternative)


mast

mast (nominative singular)
masti (dual nominative)
masti (nominative plural)
masti (genitive singular)
masťú (dual genitive)
mastí (genitive plural)
masti (dative singular)
mastma (dative dual)
mastem (dative plural)
mast (accusative singular)
masti (accusative dual)
masti (accusative plural)
masti (singular vocative)
masti (dual vocative)
masti (plural vocative)
masti (locative singular)
masťú (dual locative)
mastech (locative plural)
masťú (instrumental singular)
mastma (dual instrumental)
mastmi (instrumental plural)

Czech: mast


mast

fro-noun

mast oblique singular, m (oblique plural maz or matz, nominative singular maz or matz, nominative plural mast)

mast oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
maz (oblique plural)
matz (oblique plural)
maz (nominative singular)
matz (nominative singular)
mast (nominative plural)
maste (alternative)

Middle French: mast
French: mât

Norman: mât

→ Spanish: maste

⇒ Spanish: mástel (spelling influenced by árbol)

⇒ Spanish: mástil

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: masto, maste

Portuguese: mastro, (archaic) masto

⇒ Portuguese: mastaréu


mast

From Proto-West Germanic *maist, from Proto-Germanic *maist, *maistaz. Cognates include Old English mǣst and Old Saxon mēst.


mast

Saterland Frisian: maast

West Frisian: meast


mast

mast (nominative singular)
mastō (nominative plural)
mastōs (nominative plural)
mast (accusative singular)
mastā (accusative plural)
mastas (genitive singular)
mastō (genitive plural)
mastē (dative singular)
mastum (dative plural)
mastu (instrumental singular)
mastum (instrumental plural)

desctree

Old English: mæst
Middle English: mast
English: mast
Scots: mast

Old Frisian: *mast, *mest

Saterland Frisian: Mäst

West Frisian: mêst

Old Saxon: *mast

Middle Low German: mast

German Low German: Mast

Old Dutch: *mast

Middle Dutch: mast

Dutch: mast

Old High German: mast

Middle High German: mast

German: Mast

→ Esperanto: masto

→ Ido: masto

→ Medieval Latin: mastus (see there for further descendants)


mast

mȃst (canonical feminine)
ма̑ст (Cyrillic)
mȃst (nominative singular)
masti (nominative plural)
masti (genitive singular)
masti (genitive plural)
masti (dative singular)
mastima (dative plural)
mast (accusative singular)
masti (accusative plural)
masti (singular vocative)
masti (plural vocative)
masti (locative singular)
mastima (locative plural)
masti (instrumental singular)
mȃšću (instrumental singular)
mastima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mastь (Russian масть (mastʹ), Polish maść). Compare mazati.


mast

radiomast

a mast (similar tall structure with other uses)

mast (indefinite nominative singular)
masts (genitive indefinite singular)
masten (definite nominative singular)
mastens (definite genitive singular)
master (indefinite nominative plural)
masters (genitive indefinite plural)
masterna (definite nominative plural)
masternas (definite genitive plural)

From Middle Low German mast, from Old Saxon *mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast.


mast

cy-noun

mast m (plural mastiau or mestys or mestydd)

mastiau (plural)
mestys (plural)
mestydd (plural)
mast
fast (soft)


mast

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


mast

yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)