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cisterna
cisterna
See also: cisternă
English
Noun
cisterna (plural cisternae)
- (biology) Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.
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Latin
Etymology
From cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kisˈter.na/, [kɪsˈtɛr.na]
Noun
cisterna f (genitive cisternae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cisterna | cisternae |
| genitive | cisternae | cisternārum |
| dative | cisternae | cisternīs |
| accusative | cisternam | cisternās |
| ablative | cisternā | cisternīs |
| vocative | cisterna | cisternae |
Descendants
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
Portuguese
cisterna
Etymology
From Latin cisterna, from cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”), from Proto-Indo-European *kista (“woven container”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /siʃ.ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na
Noun
cisterna f (plural cisternas)
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sǐsteːrna/
- Hyphenation: cis‧ter‧na
Noun
cìstērna f (Cyrillic spelling цѝсте̄рна)
Declension
Declension of cisterna
References
- “cisterna” in Hrvatski jezični portal