quiste

Middle English

Alternative forms

• queste, quyst, quist

Etymology

From Old English *cwiss, from Proto-Germanic *kwissiz; the consonantism is from influence from quethen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwist/, /kwɛst/

Noun

quiste (plural questes)

1. (rare) One's will and testament.
2. (Late Middle English, rare) Bequest, inheritance

References

• “quist(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

quiste

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

quiste (biología)

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “pouch, bladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiste/ [ˈkis.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: quis‧te

Noun

quiste m (plural quistes)

1. (biology) cyst

Derived terms

• enquistar
• quístico

Related terms

• cistitis

Further reading

• “quiste”, 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

Tarantino

Pronoun

quiste m sg (plural chiste)

1. this, this one