last – English noun declension

English noun forms of last

Noun: last
Singularlast
Plurallasts; lasten

Sample Sentences

  • I muſt to the learned to learne of them, that's as much to ſay, as the Taylor muſt meddle vvith his Laſte, the Shoomaker vvith his needle, the Painter vvith his nets, and the Fiſher vvith his Penſill, I muſt to the learned. [c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature [B4], recto:]
  • Here's gallants of all ſizes, of all laſts, / Here you may fit your foote, make choyſe of thoſe / VVhome your affection may reioyce in. [1604 (first performance), [Thomas Middleton], Michaelmas Terme. […], London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Edward Allde] for A[rthur] I[ohnson] […], published 1607, →OCLC, signature [A4], recto:]
  • Shoomaker, you goe alittle beyond your laſt. [1605, [Thomas Heywood], If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie: Or, The Troubles of Queene Elizabeth, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot] for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, signature C2, verso:]
  • And leſſe matters ſet on the Friers laſts, make ſeely Papiſts beleeue novv, that Proteſtants haue no Churches nor Religion, nor ſcarſely the ſhape of men. [1614, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Religions and Other Rites of the Persians.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], 2nd edition, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 372:]
  • Is he not Duke indeed, ſee hovv he lookes / As if his ſpirit vvere a laſt, or tvvo / Above his veines, and ſtretcht his noble hide. [1626 February 13 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene, page 36, column 1:]
  • I ſet my braines vpon an vpright Laſt; tho my vvits be old, yet they are like a vvitherd pippin, vvholſome. [1604 or 1605 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Second Part of The Honest Whore, […], London: […] Elizabeth All-de, for Nathaniel Butter, published 1630, →OCLC, Act I, signature F2, recto:]
  • Let firm, vvell-hammer'd Soles protect thy Feet / Thro' freezing Snovvs, and Rains, and ſoaking Sleet. / Should the big Laſte extend the Shoe too vvide, / Each Stone vvill vvrench th' unvvary Step aſide: […] [[1716], [John] Gay, “Book I. Of the Implements for Walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 3:]
  • Occasionally, there is a drowsy sound from some lone weaver's shuttle, or shoemaker's last, but it is stifled by the thick walls and heavy dungeon-door, and only serves to make the general stillness more profound. [1842, Charles Dickens, “Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 241:]
  • How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe. [2006 September, Cathy Newman, “Every Shoe Tells a Story”, in Chris Johns, editor, National Geographic, volume 210, number 3, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83:]

Etymology

1. The noun is derived from Middle English lest, leste (“shoemaker’s model shaped like a foot, last”), from Old English lǣste (“shoemaker‘s last”), from Proto-Germanic *laistiz, from *laisǭ (“track, trail”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-eh₂-, from *leys- (“to trace; to track”). Doublet of learn and lore.
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
3. cognates
4. * Dutch leest
5. * German Leisten
6. * Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”)
7. * Swedish läst See: Middle English Nouns 'lest', Old English Nouns 'lǣste', Dutch Nouns 'leest', German Nouns 'Leisten', Swedish Nouns 'läst'.

Verbs referencing "last"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns lest, Swedish Nouns läst, Danish Nouns læst, German Nouns Leisten, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns leist.