interes

See also: interés and interès

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɛrɛs/

Noun

interes m (plural interesa, definite interesi, definite plural interesat)

1. interest

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish interés.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔinteˈɾes/ [ʔɪn̪.t̪eˈɾ̪is̪]
• Hyphenation: in‧te‧res

Noun

interés (Badlit spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜇᜒᜐ᜔)

1. interest (attention given to something)

   Synonyms: ikag, kaikag

2. (finance) interest

   Synonym: tubo

Latin

Verb

interes

1. second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of intersum

References

• interes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish

Alternative forms

• interesse (Middle Polish)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Interesse. First attested in 1575. Compare Kashubian jinteres and Silesian interes.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /inˈtɛ.rɛs/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /inˈtɛ.rɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɛs
• Syllabification: in‧te‧res

Noun

interes m inan (diminutive interesik, related adjective interesowy)

1. interest, business, affair (something to deal with or take care of)

   Synonym: sprawa

2. business (discussion of an affair)
3. interest, deal (benefit)

   Synonyms: korzyść, pożytek

4. interest, business (profitable venture)

   Synonym: biznes

5. interest, business, enterprise (establishment engaged in sales, production or provision of services)

   Synonym: przedsiębiorstwo

6. (colloquial) business (something involving one personally)

   Synonyms: sprawa, broszka, biznes

7. (colloquial) penis, manhood, package (male genitalia)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prącie

8. (obsolete) interest (focus of attention)

   Synonym: zainteresowanie

9. (obsolete) interest (that what interests)
   1. (obsolete) interesting character or personality
10. (obsolete) self-interest (want of profit for oneself)

    Synonym: interesowność

11. (obsolete, in the plural) financial trouble
12. (obsolete) need to go to the bathroom or restroom (need to urinate or defecate)
13. (obsolete) sex (coitus)

    Synonym: seks

14. (Middle Polish) interest, percentage

    Synonyms: procent, odsetel

15. (Middle Polish, law) legal claim

    Synonym: roszczenie

Usage notes

The genitive singular form interesa is obsolete.

Declension

Declension of interes

	singular	plural
nominative	interes	interesy
genitive	interesu/interesa	interesów
dative	interesowi	interesom
accusative	interes	interesy
instrumental	interesem	interesami
locative	interesie	interesach
vocative	interesie	interesy

Derived terms

adjectives

• interesowny

 

nouns

• ruch w interesie
• złoty interes

 

prepositions

• w interesie

 

verbs

• leżeć w interesie impf
• robić interes impf
• ubić interes pf, ubijać interes impf

 

Related terms

adjectives

• bezinteresowny

 

adverbs

• bezinteresownie

 

nouns

• bezinteresowność

 

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), interes is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 47 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 13 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 90 times, making it the 707th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• interes in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nie czyjś interes in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• interes in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “INTERES”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.10.2010
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “interes”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “interes”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “interes”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 102
• interes in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian interesse. Compare Aromanian intires.

Noun

interes n (plural interese)

1. interest

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	interes	interesul		interese	interesele
genitive-dative	interes	interesului		interese	intereselor
vocative	interesule			intereselor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /întereːs/
• Hyphenation: in‧te‧res

Noun

ȉnterēs m (Cyrillic spelling и̏нтере̄с)

1. interest (all senses)

Declension

Declension of interes

	singular	plural
nominative	interes	interesi
genitive	interesa	interesa
dative	interesu	interesima
accusative	interes	interese
vocative	interese	interesi
locative	interesu	interesima
instrumental	interesom	interesima

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish interés.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔinteˈɾes/ [ʔɪn̪.t̪ɛˈɾɛs]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: in‧te‧res

Noun

interés (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜇᜒᜐ᜔)

1. interest (attention given to something)

   Synonyms: gana, pakan, angkit

2. (finance) interest

   Synonym: tubo

Derived terms

• kawalang-interes
• walang-interes

 

Related terms

• interesado
• interesante

 

Further reading

• “interes”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018