arête

English

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Alternative forms

• arete

Etymology

Borrowing from French arête, from Latin arista.

Noun

arête (plural arêtes)

1. (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:

     In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.

Translations

geology

• Finnish: harja (fi)

• Spanish: arista (es) f

Anagrams

• eater, teare

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French

Etymology

Old French areste, from Latin arista.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aʁɛt/

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Noun

arête f (plural arêtes)

1. (zoology) bone (of a fish), fishbone
2. edge (of an object); ridge, crest (of mountain)
3. (architecture) groin (of vault)
4. bridge of nose
5. (botany) beard (of rye, barley etc.)
6. (graph theory) edge

Anagrams

• ratée