Noun: baixest
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | baixest |
| Plural m | baixests; baixestos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like baixest
baixest,
contrast,
segrest,
desgast,
burlesc,
disgust,
mol·lusc,
compost,
congost,
context,
asterisc,
obelisc,
hipertext,
armatost,
esquist,
abast,
agost,
ajust,
fresc,
llast, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from baix (“low”) with the ending -est by analogy with forest. Alternatively, from earlier beixest (“leap year”) (from Latin bisextus), by a chain of association: "leap year" > "year of misfortune" > "depression in the landscape", with a change in spelling due to association with baixar (“descend”). In the latter case, a doublet of bixest. See: Latin Nouns '
bisextus'.
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