aresta

Inherited from Latin arista.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

aresta f (plural arestes)

1. awn, arista (the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc.)
2. fishbone

   Synonym: espina

3. splinter
4. (geometry) edge (joining line between two vertices of a polygon)

• arestós

• “aresta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “aresta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “aresta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aresta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin arista. Doublet of arista, which was borrowed.

• IPA^(key):

aresta f (plural arestas)

1. awn, arista (the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc.)

   Synonym: argana

   • 1820, anonymous author, Diálogo entre Dominjos è Farruco:

     acababannos con todo canto tiñamos sin deixârnos nin un-a aresta

     they ended with everything we had and didn't leave us not even an awn

2. flax bast and chaff

   Synonyms: tasco, tomento

3. ridge (line of intersection)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aresta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aresta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aresta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aresta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

aresta

1. third-person singular present indicative of arester
2. third-person plural present indicative of arester
3. second-person singular imperative of arester

From Latin arista. Doublet of arista, which was borrowed.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧res‧ta

aresta f (plural arestas)

1. (geometry) edge (joining line between two vertices of a polygon)
2. (graph theory) line (edge of a graph)

   Synonym: arco

3. (graph theory) edge (any of the pairs of vertices in a graph)
4. ridge (line of intersection)
5. (Diabrotica speciosa) cucurbit beetle

   Synonyms: alfinete, bicho-galo, bicha-amarela, bicha-do-milho, câncer, travela

• “aresta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “aresta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From arest, or based on French arrêter, Italian arrestare.

a aresta (third-person singular present arestează, past participle arestat) 1st conjugation

1. to arrest

• arestare

• arest

Inherited from Latin arista

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾesta/
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: a‧res‧ta

aresta f (plural arestas)

1. thorn

   Synonyms: espina, aguja, púa, pincho

• “aresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10