pista
English edit
Noun edit
pista (plural pistas)
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pista f (plural pistes)
- track, trail, lead
- clue
- runway
- route, path, track, footpath
- (sports) track
- (music) track
- pista bonus ― bonus track
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pista” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa < Latin festa, plural of festum.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pis‧ta
Noun edit
pista
Verb edit
pista
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pista.
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Estonian edit
Verb edit
pista
- Da-infinitive of pistma.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pis.ta/
- Homophones: pistas, pistât
Verb edit
pista
- third-person singular past historic of pister
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Variant of pesta (“footprint”), technical senses influenced by French piste.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pista f (plural piste)
- track, trail, scent, clue
- il poliziotto seguiva la pista dei complici del sospettato
- the police officer was following the trail of the suspect's accomplices
- (sports) track, racetrack, racecourse, course, rink
- (skiing) ski run, ski slope, piste, trail
- pista da sci ― ski slope
- track (sound stored on a record, cassette, etc.)
- (aviation) runway
- (slang) line (of cocaine)
Interjection edit
pista
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → French: piste (see there for further descendants)
References edit
Further reading edit
- pista on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Participle edit
pista
- inflection of pistus:
Participle edit
pistā
References edit
- pista 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)
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Noun edit
pista f (plural pistas)
- track; road; path
- lane (division of roadway)
- Synonym: faixa
- racetrack (course over which any type of race is run)
- Clipping of pista de pouso. (runway)
- Clipping of pista de dança. (dancefloor)
- lane (division of roadway)
- footprints
- clue (information that may lead one to a certain point or conclusion)
- Synonym: indício
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pista.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ста)
- runway (for airplanes)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian pista. Compare English piston.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pista f (plural pistas)
- track, course, trail
- (aviation) runway
- (bowling) lane
- (sports, Spain) court (field on which tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, etc is played)
- Synonym: (Latin America) cancha
- pista de baloncesto ― basketball court
- clue, fingerprint
- Synonym: indicio
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Early borrowing from Spanish fiesta. Compare Malay pesta. Doublet of piyesta, a later borrowing.
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pistá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)
- feast day; festival; festivity
- Synonym: pagdiriwang
- Ika-16 ng Enero ang pista ng Santo Niño. ― The feast of the Santo Niño is at January 16.
- feast or banquet associated with a feast day
- (obsolete) feast kept outside of a Sunday or a patron holiday [16th–17th c.]
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Etymology 2 edit
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pistâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)
- act of undervaluing or underrating, in a mean manner, the merits of someone or something; faultfinding; belittlement
- Synonyms: pintas, puna, pula, pagmamaliit
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Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Spanish pista (“track; course”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pistâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)
References edit
- “pista”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Rosalio Serrano (1854) Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano[1] (in Spanish), page 110
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[3], La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 320: “Fieſta) Piſta ([pc]) C. que ſe guarda fuera del domingo ola fieſta del patron”
- page 417: “Menos preciar) Piſta (pc) C. teniẽdo [a otro] en poco”