restis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin restis (“rope, cord”).

Noun

restis

1. (anatomy) Any of the restiform bodies on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

Anagrams

• Istres, Reists, Sister, reists, resist, resits, risest, sister

Catalan

Verb

restis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of restar

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Pronunciation

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Verb

restis

1. past of resti

Ido

Verb

restis

1. past of restar

Latin

Etymology

From earlier *rezgtis, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)resg- (“to weave, to plait”). Cognates include Lithuanian regzti, Russian розга (rozga), Sanskrit रज्जु (rajju, “rope”), Old Armenian երագազ (eragaz).

Noun

restis f (genitive restis); third declension

1. rope, cord

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	restis	restēs
Genitive	restis	restium
Dative	restī	restibus
Accusative	restim restem	restēs restīs
Ablative	restī reste	restibus
Vocative	restis	restēs

Derived terms

• resticula

Descendants

• Albanian: rrjesht
• Galician: restra, reste
• Italian: resta
• Portuguese: reste, réstia
• ⇒ Spanish: ristra

References

• “restis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “restis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• restis 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)
• restis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎^[1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 39