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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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek ????? (paté?) / ????? (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan ????????????????????? (panta, “way”), ????????????????? (pa?a, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit ????? (páthin)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh?s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [p????]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [p?ä??], [p????]
• IPA^(key): /pæ?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [p?æ?], [p????], [p?e??]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [p?a?], [p?æ?]
• Rhymes: -???, -æ?

Noun

path (plural paths)

1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
2. A course taken.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.

3. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
4. A metaphorical course.
5. A method or direction of proceeding.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

6. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.

7. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
8. (topology) A continuous map ${\displaystyle f}$ from the unit interval ${\displaystyle I=[0,1]}$ to a topological space ${\displaystyle X}$.
9. (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.

Synonyms

• (1): track, trail; see also Thesaurus:way

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)

1. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles

     pathing young Henry's unadvised ways

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

path (uncountable)

1. (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]
• “path”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Ptah, phat

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English pæþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz, from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs.

Alternative forms

• paþ, peth, paþþe, paaþ, pathe, paththe, pað, paath

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?/, /pa??/, /p??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

path (plural pathes)

1. An informal or unpaved path or trail; a track.
2. A choice or way of living; a doctrine.
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A course or route.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) A vessel or vein.

Related terms

• pathen
• pathyng

Descendants

• English: path
• Scots: paith

References

• “p??th, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.

Etymology 2

From path (noun).

Verb

path

1. Alternative form of pathen