# haste
## English
### Etymology

Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adj), Old Norse heift / heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”). (Can this etymology be sourced?)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /heɪst/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪst

### Noun

haste (usually uncountable, plural hastes)
* Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 12:8:The king's business required haste.
** 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.
* (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 116:11:I said in my haste, All men are liars.

#### Derived terms

* great haste makes great waste
* haste makes waste
* hasten
* hastily
* hastiness
* hasty
* in haste
* make haste
* make haste slowly
* more haste, less speed
* posthaste, post haste

#### Translations

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### Verb

haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)
* (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
* (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
** 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)‎:The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
** 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes‎:He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
** 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present‎:Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

#### Synonyms

* (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry

### References

* ↑ Etymology at merriam-webster.com
* ↑ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 524

### Anagrams

* ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Navarro-Lapurdian) /has̺te/ [has̺.t̪e]
* IPA: (Southern) /as̺te/ [as̺.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -as̺te, -e
* Hyphenation: has‧te

### Noun

haste inan
* Verbal noun of hasi (“to begin”); beginning
    Synonyms: hasiera, hastapen

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “haste”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “haste”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦastɛ]
* Rhymes: -astɛ

### Verb

haste (imperative)
* second-person plural imperative of hasit

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

haste
* hastily

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhastə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: has‧te
* Homophone: hasste

### Verb

haste
* inflection of hasten:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

### Contraction

haste
* (colloquial) contraction of hast du

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French haste.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑːtə/

### Noun

haste f (plural hastes)
* haste, speed

#### Descendants

* French: hâte

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

haste (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative haste/hast)
* Alternative form of hasta

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* hast, ast

### Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”).

### Pronunciation

* (classical) IPA: /ˈhastə/
* (late) IPA: /ˈhaːtə/

### Noun

haste oblique singular, f (oblique plural hastes, nominative singular haste, nominative plural hastes)
* urgency, haste, speed

#### Derived terms

* haster
* hasteier
* hastece, hastance
* hastif

#### Descendants

* Middle French: haste
** French: hâte
* Walloon: hausse (Forrières), håsse (Liégeois)
* → Middle Dutch: haest, haeste, haste, hast (reborrowing)
** Dutch: haast
*** Afrikaans: haas
** → West Flemish: hoast
** → Middle Low German: hāst
*** → Danish: hast
*** → Norwegian Bokmål: hast
*** → Norwegian Nynorsk: hast
*** → German: Hast
*** → Swedish: hast
* → Middle English: haste, hast
** English: haste

### References

* ↑ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (haste)
* ↑ http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=ONW&id=ID2489&article=haast
* ↑ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “haast1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From hasta.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈas.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈas.t͡ʃi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈaʃ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈas.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈaʃ.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: has‧te

### Noun

haste f (plural hastes)
* pole
* (botany) stem, stalk

#### Derived terms

* hastear

### Further reading

* “haste”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025