name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
arista
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/əˈɹɪstə/
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CMU ARPABET: ER0 IH1 S T AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
A bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: process, outgrowth, appendage
History
Etymology
From New Latin arista. Doublet of arête.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: aresta — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Chinese Mandarin: 芒刺 (máng cì) — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Chinese Mandarin: 芒 (máng) — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Czech: osina — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Finnish: vihne — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Finnish: arista — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- French: jarres — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- French: barbe — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- German: Granne — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- German: Ähre — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Italian: arista — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Italian: resta — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Latvian: akuots — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Lithuanian: akuotas — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Portuguese: arista — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Russian: ость (ostʹ) — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Slovak: osť — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Spanish: arista — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Spanish: raspa — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- Ottoman Turkish: سونكو (süngü) — one of the fibrils found on grains or fishes
- German: Fühlerborste — a bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna