cisterna

From Latin cisterna.

cisterna (plural cisternae)

1. (biology) Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.

• Certains, Cestrian, Cretians, anticers, canister, creatins, nacrites, scantier, tercians

Borrowed from Latin cisterna.

cisterna f (plural cisternes)

1. cistern
2. tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)

• “cisterna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cisterna”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

 

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Borrowed from Latin cisterna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪstɛrna]

cisterna f

1. tank (closed container)

• nádrž
• jímka

• “cisterna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “cisterna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• cistrena

From Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”).

• IPA^(key): /θisˈtɛɾna̝/

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern

   Synonyms: alxibe, canfurna

   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, 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 a utility inside the mentioned new house, nor around it for thirty cubits.

• camión cisterna

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cisterna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cistrena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cisterna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cisterna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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cisterna f (plural cisterne)

1. tank (for liquid)
2. cistern

• Canestri, canestri, crestina, scarnite, scartine

From cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kisˈter.na/, [kɪs̠ˈt̪ɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃisˈter.na/, [t͡ʃisˈt̪ɛrnä]

cisterna f (genitive cisternae); first declension

1. cistern, tank (for water), reservoir
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.5.15:

     bibe aquam dē cisternā tuā et fluenta puteī tuī

     Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

First-declension noun.

• “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

From Latin cisterna (“cistern, tank”), from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box, chest”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sisˈteɾna/

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern, well
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v:

     vino ruben ala ciſterna. E nõ ẏuẏo aioſeph. e rõpio ſos ueſtidos cõ peſar q̃ ouo. E dẏxo nõ ẏes. yo do ẏre.

     Reuben came to the cistern and did not see Joseph there, and he tore his clothes over the sorrow he felt, and he said, “He is not there! Where shall I go?”

• (well): pozo m

• Spanish: cisterna

 

 cisterna on Portuguese Wikipedia

 

Borrowed from Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”).

• Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern

   Synonyms: (Portugal) algibe, (Brazil) aljibe

• camião-cisterna

Borrowed from Latin cisterna.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sǐsteːrna/
• Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na

cìstērna f (Cyrillic spelling цѝсте̄рна)

1. cistern
2. tank(er) lorry, tank truck

• “cisterna”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Inherited from Old Spanish cisterna, from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box, chest”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θisˈteɾna/ [θisˈt̪eɾ.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sisˈteɾna/ [sisˈt̪eɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: cis‧ter‧na

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern

   Synonyms: aljibe, pozo

• “cisterna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28