cuesta

Borrowed from Spanish cuesta. Doublet of coast.

cuesta (plural cuestas)

1. (geomorphology) slope (acclivity or declivity).

• Escaut, acutes, causet, scutae

• IPA^(key): [ˈkwe̞s.ta̠]
• See also: encuesta, puesta, tuesta

Inherited from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”), later coming to mean "edge" or "coast" in Medieval Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Compare the doublet costa.

cuesta f (plural cuestas)

1. (geology) slope (acclivity or declivity)

• pendiente

• cuesta arriba
• cuesta abajo

• a costa de
• acostar
• costado
• costilla

• See costar

cuesta

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of costar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of costar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of costar.