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pacoste

“pacoste” is a Romanian word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. vicissitude
  2. person causing problems

In Romanian

  1. ceea ce provoacă cuiva mari neplăceri, necazuri, suferințe; situație în care se află cel asupra căruia s-a abătut o asemenea năpastă.
  2. ființă care provoacă cuiva neplăceri, necazuri, suferințe.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пакость (pakostĭ, “madness, tyranny”), from Proto-Slavic *pakostь (“vicissitude”). Cognates include Russian пакость (pakostʹ), Ukrainian па́кість (pákistʹ), Belarusian па́косць (pákoscʹ), Bulgarian па́кост (pákost, “harm”), Serbo-Croatian pȁkōst (“malice”), Slovene pákost (“vicissitude”) (tonal orthography), Czech раkоsť (“filth”), Polish раkоść, Upper Sorbian…

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