pacoste

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pacoste¹

Where it comes from

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 раkоsć, Lower Sorbian раkоsć.

noun pacoste · pacostea · pacostele

  1. feminine vicissitude
  2. feminine, figuratively person causing problems

Pacoste²

Where it comes from

From pacoste.

proper noun lui Pacoste

  1. masculine a surname

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"pacoste." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/pacoste. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pacoste. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pacoste

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"pacoste." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pacoste.

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@misc{pacoste_2026,
  title = {pacoste},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pacoste},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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