cista
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#CISTACategory:Catalan learned borrowings from Latin#CISTACategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#CISTA cista. Doublet of cestaCategory:Catalan doublets#CISTA.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsis.tə]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#CISTA
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈsis.ta]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#CISTA
Noun
cista f (plural cistes)Category:Catalan lemmas#CISTACategory:Catalan nouns#CISTACategory:Catalan countable nouns#CISTACategory:Catalan nouns with red links in their headword lines#CISTACategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Catalan feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA
- (archaeologyCategory:ca:Archaeology#CISTA) cist
- A cover woven from esparto.
Further reading
- “cista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Czech terms borrowed from Latin#CISTACategory:Czech terms derived from Latin#CISTA cista.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɪsta]Category:Czech terms with IPA pronunciation#CISTA
- Hyphenation: cis‧ta
Noun
cista fCategory:Czech lemmas#CISTACategory:Czech nouns#CISTACategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Czech feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA
- cist (container)
Declension
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 LatinCategory:Italian terms borrowed from Latin#CISTACategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#CISTA cista. Doublet of cestaCategory:Italian doublets#CISTA.
Pronunciation
Noun
cista f (plural ciste)Category:Italian lemmas#CISTACategory:Italian nouns#CISTACategory:Italian countable nouns#CISTACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Italian feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA
Further reading
- cista1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#CISTACategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#CISTA κίστη (kístē).
Pronunciation
Noun
cista f (genitive cistae)Category:Latin lemmas#CISTACategory:Latin nouns#CISTACategory:Latin first declension nouns#CISTACategory:Latin feminine nouns in the first declension#CISTACategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Latin feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA; first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: cesta
- Catalan: cista
- → English: cist (learned)
- French: ciste
- Galician: cesta
- → German: Ziste
- Italian: cesta; → cista (learned)
- Portuguese: cesta → cista (learned)
- Romansh: cesta, chaista, chista
- Spanish: cesta
- → Old Norse: kista (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kistu (see there for further 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, 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-SlavicCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#CISTA *cěsta.
Alternative forms
Noun
cista f (Cyrillic spelling циста)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#CISTACategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun entries#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA
- (ChakavianCategory:Chakavian Serbo-Croatian#CISTA, IkavianCategory:Ikavian Serbo-Croatian#CISTA) road
- 1501, Marko Marulić, Judita:
- I da ljudi huste zaskoče na cistih,Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with quotations#CISTACategory:Requests for translations of Serbo-Croatian quotations#CISTA
mače, ki to zuste tičući po mistih.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
From Ancient GreekCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ancient Greek#CISTA κύστις (kústis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sîsta/Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation#CISTA
- Hyphenation: cis‧ta
Noun
cȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling ци̏ста)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA
Declension
Further reading
- “cista”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
Etymology 3
From LatinCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Latin#CISTA cista, from Ancient GreekCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ancient Greek#CISTA κίστη (kístē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sîsta/Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation#CISTA
- Hyphenation: cis‧ta
Noun
cȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling ци̏ста)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#CISTACategory:Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns#CISTACategory:Pages with entries#CISTACategory:Pages with 5 entries#CISTA
- cist (container)
Declension
Further reading
- “cista”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026