different between affair vs ista

English

Alternative forms

• affaire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English afere, affere, from Old French afaire, from a- + faire (“to do”), from Latin ad- + facere (“to do”). See fact, and confer ado.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f??/
• (otherwise) (US) IPA^(key): /??f??(?)/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

affair (plural affairs)

1. (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

   Synonyms: matter, concern
2. Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
3. (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
4. A material object (vaguely designated).

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
5. An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).
6. A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
7. A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
8. A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
9. (slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.
   • 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:

     [S]he, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished that I could not but remember the difference, now cresfallen, or just faintly lifting its head.

Translations

See also

• liaison

References

• affair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• raffia

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English affair, from French affaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?fe?/, [a?fe?]

Noun

affair m (plural affaires)

1. affair (extramarital relationship)

   Synonym: aventura

Aragonese

Determiner

ista

1. feminine singular of iste

Latin

Pronunciation

ista: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?is.ta/, [??s?t?ä]

• ista: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?is.ta/, [?ist??]

ist?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?is.ta?/, [??s?t?ä?]

• ist?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?is.ta/, [?ist??]

Pronoun

ista

1. nominative feminine singular of iste
2. nominative neuter plural of iste
3. accusative neuter plural of iste

Pronoun

ist?

1. ablative feminine singular of iste

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

ista

1. salt

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

ista

1. inflection of isti:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural