aresta

See also: arestà and Aresta

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾes.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈɾes.ta]

Noun

aresta f (plural arestes)

1. awn, arista (the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc.)
2. fishbone

   Synonym: espina

3. splinter
4. (geometry) edge (joining line between two vertices of a polygon)

Derived terms

• arestós

Further reading

• “aresta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aresta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “aresta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aresta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin arista. Doublet of arista, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈɾestɐ]

Noun

aresta f (plural arestas)

1. awn, arista (the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc.)

   Synonym: argana

   • 1820, anonymous author, Diálogo entre Dominjos è Farruco:

     acababannos con todo canto tiñamos sin deixârnos nin un-a aresta

     they ended with everything we had and didn't leave us not even an awn

2. flax bast and chaff

   Synonyms: tasco, tomento

3. ridge (line of intersection)

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aresta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aresta”, 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), “aresta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aresta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ladin

Verb

aresta

1. third-person singular present indicative of arester
2. third-person plural present indicative of arester
3. second-person singular imperative of arester

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin arista. Doublet of arista, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛs.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛs.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛs.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾɛʃ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧res‧ta

Noun

aresta f (plural arestas)

1. (geometry) edge (joining line between two vertices of a polygon)
2. (graph theory) line (edge of a graph)

   Synonym: arco

3. (graph theory) edge (any of the pairs of vertices in a graph)
4. ridge (line of intersection)
5. (Diabrotica speciosa) cucurbit beetle

   Synonyms: alfinete, bicho-galo, bicha-amarela, bicha-do-milho, câncer, travela

Further reading

• “aresta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “aresta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “aresta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Romanian

Etymology

From arest, or based on French arrêter, Italian arrestare.

Verb

a aresta (third-person singular present arestează, past participle arestat) 1st conjugation

1. to arrest

Conjugation

    conjugation of aresta (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a aresta
gerund			arestând
past participle			arestat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	arestez	arestezi	arestează	arestăm	arestați	arestează
	imperfect	arestam	arestai	aresta	arestam	arestați	arestau
	simple perfect	arestai	arestași	arestă	arestarăm	arestarăți	arestară
	pluperfect	arestasem	arestaseși	arestase	arestaserăm	arestaserăți	arestaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să arestez	să arestezi	să aresteze	să arestăm	să arestați	să aresteze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		arestează			arestați
	negative		nu aresta			nu arestați

Derived terms

• arestare

Related terms

• arest

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arista

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾesta/ [aˈɾes.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: a‧res‧ta

Noun

aresta f (plural arestas)

1. thorn

   Synonyms: espina, aguja, púa, pincho

Further reading

• “aresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024