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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
cista f
- tube-shaped bronze vessel
Declension
Declension of cista (hard feminine)
Further reading
- “cista”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “cista”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cista. Doublet of cesta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.sta/
- Rhymes: -ista
- Hyphenation: cì‧sta
Noun
cista f (plural ciste)
- cist
Further reading
- cista1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē).
Pronunciation
Noun
cista f (genitive cistae); first declension
- a trunk, a chest, a casket
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “cista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cista 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)
- “cista”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “cista”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cista”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěsta.
Noun
cista f (Cyrillic spelling циста)
- (Chakavian, Ikavian) road
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sîsta/
- Hyphenation: cis‧ta
Noun
cȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling ци̏ста)
- cyst
Declension
Etymology 3
From Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sîsta/
- Hyphenation: cis‧ta
Noun
cȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling ци̏ста)
- cist
Declension
References
- “cista”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- “cista”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024