different between piste vs niste

English

Etymology

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st, -i?st

Noun

piste (plural pistes)

1. (skiing) A downhill trail.
2. (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
3. (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.

Translations

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, septi-, spite, stipe

Dutch

Etymology 1

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste f (plural pistes, diminutive pistetje n)

1. (skiing) piste
2. (circus) circus ring
3. (Belgium) trail, track

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?/

Verb

piste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of pissen

Finnish

Etymology

pistää +? -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt; other meanings derive from those two.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?piste?/, [?pis?t?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: pis?te

Noun

piste

1. (typography) point, dot, full stop, period
2. (mathematics) point (zero-dimensional object)
3. point (particular location)
4. point (something tiny)
5. point (mark or stroke above a letter)
6. point (unit of scoring)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) pojo, (colloquial) pinna

7. (typography) point (unit of font size or spacing)

Declension

Derived terms

• pisteyttää

Compounds

Related terms

Anagrams

• pesit, pesti, petsi, tepsi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pist/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).

Noun

piste f (plural pistes)

1. track or trail (left by an animal or person)
2. track (road or other similar beaten path)

3. (figuratively) lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation)

4. (aviation) runway

5. (music) track (on a recording)
6. racecourse
7. ring in a circus
8. floor (various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing)

9. (skiing) piste

Derived terms

• brouiller les pistes
• piste courte
• piste cyclable
• piste de danse

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

piste

1. inflection of pister:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “piste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iste

Noun

piste f

1. plural of pista

Anagrams

• pesti

Latin

Participle

piste

1. vocative masculine singular of pistus

References

• piste in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lithuanian

Participle

piste

1. "manner of action" b?dinys participle of pisti.

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste m

1. plural of pisto

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (peste).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s?t?/

Noun

piste f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. pistachio

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “piste”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pissa, pisset

Verb

piste

1. simple past of pisse

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?st?/

Verb

niste

1. inflection of nisten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Contraction

niste

1. ne wiste; did not know
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue.

     So dronk he was he niste what he wrought.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse nesti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²n?st?/

Noun

niste f (definite singular nista, indefinite plural nister, definite plural nistene)

1. food that is brought along to eat at school, at work, on a trip, etc., a packed lunch

References

• “niste” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Standard Montenegrin) nijèste
• (regional, chiefly Serbia) néste
• (historical, regional) nijéste

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne + *este, second-person plural present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesm? in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become n?ste (attested in the 14th century). Because of the yat reflex, n?ste became rendered as niste in Ikavian speeches.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??ste/
• Hyphenation: ni?ste

Verb

níste (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia) negative second-person plural present of biti

References

• “niste” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897) , “jesam”, in Rje?nik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606