cisterna
See also: cisternă
English
Noun
cisterna (plural cisternae)
- (biology) Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.
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Catalan
Further reading
- “cisterna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cisterna” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “cisterna” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cisterna” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɪstɛrna]
Galician
Alternative forms
- cistrena
Etymology
From Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θisˈtɛɾna̝/
Noun
cisterna f (plural cisternas)
- cistern
- 1395, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:
- Outrosy mandamos que o dicto Martin Bezerra et sua moller nen sua voz nen outro algun non posan fazer poço nen sacar agoa nen fazer algibe nen çistrenna nen otra cousa semellante para teer agoa por maneyra de bastimento dentro en a dicta casa noua nen arredor dela trijnta couedos.
- Also, we command that neither the aforementioned Martin Becerra, nor his wife, nor their successors, nor anyone, could make a well, or extract water, or make a reservoir, or a cistern, or any other such thing for having water as an utility inside the mentioned new house, nor arround it for thirty cubits
- Outrosy mandamos que o dicto Martin Bezerra et sua moller nen sua voz nen outro algun non posan fazer poço nen sacar agoa nen fazer algibe nen çistrenna nen otra cousa semellante para teer agoa por maneyra de bastimento dentro en a dicta casa noua nen arredor dela trijnta couedos.
- Synonym: alxibe
- 1395, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:
Derived terms
References
- “cisterna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “cistrena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “cisterna” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cisterna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
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Latin
Etymology
From cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kisˈter.na/, [kɪsˈtɛr.na]
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cisterna | cisternae |
Genitive | cisternae | cisternārum |
Dative | cisternae | cisternīs |
Accusative | cisternam | cisternās |
Ablative | cisternā | cisternīs |
Vocative | cisterna | cisternae |
Descendants
References
- cisterna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cisterna in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cisterna in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese

cisterna
Etymology
From Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”), from Proto-Indo-European *kista (“woven container”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /siʃ.ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sǐsteːrna/
- Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na
Declension
Spanish
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