pasts

English

Pronunciation

Noun

pasts

  1. plural of past

Anagrams

Latvian

Pasts Rīgā

Etymology

Borrowed from German Post (itself a borrowing from Italian), first mentioned in 17th/18th-century dictionaries. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pasts]

Noun

pasts m (1st declension)

  1. mail, post (organization that delivers letters and small packages; place, buildings where it works)
    pasta darbinieks ― postal worker
    pasta krājkase ― postal savings bank
    pasta stacija ― postal station, post office
    pasts iekārtojās tajā pašā namā, kura vienu pusi bija aizņēmusi izpildu komiteja ― the post (office) was placed in the same building in which one half had been occupied by the Executive Committee
    pēc kādas nedēļas Nadīna paziņo, ka pāriešot dzīvot turpat pastā ― after about a week Nadīna announced that she would go live right there in the post (office)
  2. mail, post (the regular delivery service of this organization)
    gaisa pasts ― air mail
    pasta sakari ― mail connections, communications
    pasta ceļš ― mail path
  3. mail, post (the letters or packages delivered by this organization)
    nosūtīt pastu ― to send the mail
    atnest pastu ― to get, fetch the mail
    pasta vagons ― mail van
    pasta soma ― mail bag
    “pasts uz jūsu galda”, viņa sekretāre teica ― “the mail is on your desk,” his secretary said
    Florencē saņēmām no Rīgas pārsūtīto pastu ― in Florece we received the mail forwarded from Riga

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See also

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “pasts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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