aresta

See also: arestà and Aresta

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin arista.

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)

Further reading

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

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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

2. flax bast and chaff

   Synonyms: tasco, tomento

3. ridge (line of intersection)

References

• “aresta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “aresta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “aresta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aresta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

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)

Further reading

• “aresta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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