Hasta vs Haste - What's the difference?
hasta | haste |
(colloquial) (hafta): has to; is required to.
(colloquial) goodbye
A hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 21, Joe Fiorito, Tamil dance fine gesture even for our crop of snow, Toronto Star
, passage=A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around. }}
Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
(obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
* Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
To urge onward; to hasten
To move with haste.
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition=
, passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}
Haste is a descendant of hasta.
Haste is a related term of hasta.
As verbs the difference between hasta and haste
is that hasta is third-person singular of hafta: has to; is required to while haste is to urge onward; to hasten.As nouns the difference between hasta and haste
is that hasta is a hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song while haste is speed; swiftness; dispatch.As an interjection hasta
is goodbye.hasta
English
Etymology 1
Written form of a of "has to".Verb
(head)- He hasta visit the doctor.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Interjection
(head)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
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See also
*haste
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Noun
(-)- We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
- The king's business required haste .
- I said in my haste , All men are liars.
Derived terms
* hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverbVerb
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