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Definitions and meaning of arista

arista

Etymology

From New Latin arista. Doublet of arête.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɪstə/

Noun

arista (plural aristae or aristas)

1. (biology) One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.
2. (entomology) A bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aritas, Ataris, Atiras, Sarita, aartis, ataris, raitas, riatas, tairas, tarais, tarsia, tiaras

Finnish

Adjective

arista

1. elative plural of arka

Verb

arista

1. inflection of aristaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• Sarita, arasti, raatsi, rasiat, rastia, ratsia, tsaari

Italian

Etymology 1

Possibly from Ancient Greek ἄρῐστος (áristos, “the best”), as it is considered the most prized cut of pig meat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ri.sta/
• Rhymes: -arista
• Hyphenation: à‧ri‧sta

Noun

arista f (plural ariste)

1. pork loin

Further reading

• arista (cucina) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin arista. Doublet of resta, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈri.sta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: a‧rì‧sta

Noun

arista f (plural ariste)

1. (biology, botany, zoology) arista
2. (literary) awn, ear (of grain)

   Synonyms: resta, spiga

Anagrams

• Tarsia, arasti, astrai, rasati, risata, sartia, satira, starai, tarsia

Latin

Etymology

The origin is unknown. Sometimes thus called Etruscan, but this is in the first place not likely since the old Latins were agriculturalists nor are there formal grounds, compare Latin genista (“broom”) for this formation.

A derivation from Proto-Indo-European is likely, but concrete relations are unknown. Čop has presented as cognates Lithuanian asȳs, esȳs, esiūklis, asiūklis (“horsetail, equisetum”), Latvian aši, ašas, ašavi, ašavas, ašenes, ašķi, ažģi (“horsetail, equisetum”) (elsewhere one lists a Latgalian ašķi (“horsetail, equisetum”) and puts to the forms also Thracian ἀσᾶ (ἀsᾶ, “coltsfoot”)), Lithuanian asnìs, ašnìs (“long, protruding hair of a fur animal; rye shoots; edge or sharpness of a scythe”), Epic Greek ἤϊα (ḗïa, “chaff; provisions”), Irish eorna (“barley”) and Hittite [script needed] (ha-a-as /⁠ḫās(s)-⁠/, “ashes; potash; soap”), Hittite [script needed] (ha-a-su-wa-a-i^SAR /⁠ḫāsuwāi-⁠/, “soapwort; harmal”), but Puhvel finds these alleged cognates motley, and the Hittite word belongs to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- related to burning and ashes, and the Irish word is from Proto-Celtic *yewos, from Proto-Indo-European *yéwos (“barley”) also in Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas (“barley”). But the comparison just to the Baltic horsetail-words was already made by Bezzenberger.
A relation to arundō (“reed”) is somewhat likely, while its etymology is likewise unknown. A relation with Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“related to moving, rising”) is considered.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈris.ta/, [äˈrɪs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈris.ta/, [äˈrist̪ä]

Noun

arista f (genitive aristae); first declension

1. awn (beard of grain)
2. ear of grain
3. harvest; summer
4. fishbone or a fibril thereof
5. bristle (e.g. on a fly’s antenna – in Neo-Latin entomology)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• aristātus
• aristifer
• aristiger
• aristosus

Descendants

• Catalan: aresta
• → English: arista
• French: arête
  • → English: arête
• Galician: aresta
• Italian: resta, arista
• Portuguese: aresta, arista
• Sicilian: resca
• Spanish: arista, aresta

References

• “arista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arista 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)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arista. Doublet of aresta, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧ris‧ta

Noun

arista f (plural aristas)

1. (biology) arista (one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arista. Doublet of aresta, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾista/ [aˈɾis.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: a‧ris‧ta

Noun

arista f (plural aristas)

1. (geometry) edge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet)
2. (geology) arête
3. (architecture) arris
4. (agriculture) awn
5. (figurative, in the plural) facets

Related terms

Further reading

• “arista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014