cisterna

See also cisternă

English

Noun

cisterna (plural cisternae)

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

Translations

membrane section comprising organelles

• Dutch: cisterne (nl) f

• Finnish: sisterna (fi)

Anagrams

Wikipedia

• canister
• Cestrian
• scantier
• tercians

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cisterna.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cisterna f (plural cisterne)

1. tank (for liquid)
2. cistern

Anagrams

• canestri
• crestina
• scarnite

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Latin

Noun

cisterna (genitive cisternae); f, first declension

1. cistern, tank (for water)

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	cisterna	cisternae
genitive	cisternae	cisternārum
dative	cisternae	cisternīs
accusative	cisternam	cisternās
ablative	cisternā	cisternīs
vocative	cisterna	cisternae

Descendants

English: cistern Dalmatian: cistierna French: citerne Friulian: cistierne German: Zisterne Italian: cisterna

Portuguese: cisterna Romanian: cisternă Russian: цисте́рна (cistérna) Sardinian: chistèrra Spanish: cisterna

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cisterna.

Noun

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern

Derived terms

• camión cisterna