cista

Learned borrowing from Latin cista. Doublet of cesta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsis.ta]

cista f (plural cistes)

1. (archaeology) cist
2. A cover woven from esparto.

• “cista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Borrowed from Latin cista.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪsta]
• Hyphenation: cis‧ta

cista f

1. cist (container)

• “cista”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “cista”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin cista. Doublet of cesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃis.ta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: cì‧sta

cista f (plural ciste)

1. cist

• cista¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• casti

From Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪs.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃis.ta]

cista f (genitive cistae); first declension

1. a trunk, a chest, a casket

First-declension noun.

• cistella
• cisterna
• cistifer
• cistophorus
• cistula

• “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^[1]
• “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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěsta.

• cèsta (Ijekavian, Ekavian)

cista f (Cyrillic spelling циста)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) road
   • 1501, Marko Marulić, Judita:

     I da ljudi huste zaskoče na cistih,
     mače, ki to zuste tičući po mistih.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sîsta/
• Hyphenation: cis‧ta

cȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling ци̏ста)

1. cyst

• “cista”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

From Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sîsta/
• Hyphenation: cis‧ta

cȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling ци̏ста)

1. cist (container)

• “cista”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026