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.

Derived terms

• intercisternal
• terminal cisterna

Translations

membrane section comprising organelles

• Dutch: cisterne (nl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: sisterna

Anagrams

• Certains, Cestrian, Cretians, canister, creatins, nacrites, scantier, tercians

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cisterna.

Noun

cisterna f (plural cisternes)

1. cistern
2. tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)

Further reading

• “cisterna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cisterna”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cisterna” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cisterna” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cisterna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪstɛrna]

Noun

cisterna f

1. tank (closed container)

See also

• nádrž
• jímka

Further reading

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Galician

Alternative forms

• cistrena

Etymology

From Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θisˈtɛɾna̝/

Noun

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     Outrosy mandamos que o dicto Martin Bezerra et sua moller nen sua voz nen outro algun non posan fazer poço nen sacar agoa nen fazer algibe nen çistrenna nen otra cousa semellante para teer agoa por maneyra de bastimento dentro en a dicta casa noua nen arredor dela trijnta couedos.

     Also, we command that neither the aforementioned Martin Becerra, nor his wife, nor their successors, nor anyone, could make a well, or extract water, or make a reservoir, or a cistern, or any other such thing for having water as an utility inside the mentioned new house, nor arround it for thirty cubits

   Synonym: alxibe

Derived terms

• camión cisterna

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cisterna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cisterna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cisterna.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

cisterna f (plural cisterne)

1. tank (for liquid)
2. cistern

Anagrams

• canestri
• crestina
• scarnite

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Latin

Etymology

From cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kisˈter.na/, [kɪs̠ˈt̪ɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃisˈter.na/, [t͡ʃisˈt̪ɛrnä]

Noun

cisterna f (genitive cisternae); first declension

1. cistern, tank (for water)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cisterna	cisternae
Genitive	cisternae	cisternārum
Dative	cisternae	cisternīs
Accusative	cisternam	cisternās
Ablative	cisternā	cisternīs
Vocative	cisterna	cisternae

Descendants

• Catalan: cisterna
• Dalmatian: cistierna
• English: cistern
• French: citerne
• Friulian: cistierne
• Galician: cisterna
• German: Zisterne
• Istriot: zustierna

• Italian: cisterna
• Portuguese: cisterna
• Romanian: cisternă
• Russian: цисте́рна (cistérna)
• Sardinian: chisterra, cisterra
• Sicilian: jisterna
• Spanish: cisterna

References

• “cisterna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cisterna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cisterna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Portuguese

cisterna

Etymology

From Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kista (“woven container”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʃ.ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na

Noun

cisterna f (plural s)

1. cistern

Synonyms

• algibe (Portugal), aljibe (Brazil)

Derived terms

• camião-cisterna

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cisterna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sǐsteːrna/
• Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na

Noun

cìstērna f (Cyrillic spelling цѝсте̄рна)

1. cistern
2. tank(er) lorry, tank truck

Declension

Declension of cisterna

	singular	plural
nominative	cìstērna	cisterne
genitive	cisterne	cìstērnā/cìstērnī
dative	cisterni	cisternama
accusative	cisternu	cisterne
vocative	cisterno	cisterne
locative	cisterni	cisternama
instrumental	cisternom	cisternama

References

• “cisterna” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cisterna.

Noun

cisterna f (plural cisternas)

1. cistern

Synonyms

• (cistern): aljibe, pozo

Derived terms

• buque cisterna
• camión cisterna