infestus.
hostile (to a person, cause etc.), antagonistic
Meaning & usage
hostile (to a person, cause etc.), antagonistic
hostile (to a person, cause etc.), antagonistic marked by strife, troubled
aggressive, warlike; raised, threatening, poised to strike
harmful, troublesome
dangerous, unsafe; infested [with ablative ‘with’]; adverse
exposed to danger, threatened, insecure
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. Possibilities include: # Cognate with manifestus (“caught in the act”) by assuming a precedent sense “caught by hand”, and derived from a tentative -festus (“grabbing, attacking”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers- (“to be bold”). # Cognate with festīnō (“to hasten, accelerate”), cōnfestim (“immediately”) by assuming a precedent sense “rushing in”, from Proto-Italic *festis (“hurry”), which Schrijver derives from a root *bʰris-. This makes a connection with manifestus difficult. # From in- (“un-”) + Proto-Italic *festus (“asked for”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-to-s, from *gʷʰedʰ- (“to request, ask for, pray”). Phonologically this assumes the ending -tus being analogically restored after *TT had shifted to *ss in Italic, as might be the case with fūstis.
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