pista

pista (plural pistas)

1. (South Asia) pistachio

Borrowed from French piste.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpis.ta]

pista f (plural pistes)

1. track, trail, lead
2. clue
3. runway
4. route, path, track, footpath
5. (sports) track
6. (music) track

   pista bonus ― bonus track

• despistar

• “pista” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa < Latin festa, plural of festum.

• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

pista

1. feast day
2. feast or banquet associated with such festival

pista

1. to celebrate such festival
2. to prepare a feast for such festival
3. to attend such festival or feast

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pista.

• mamistahay

• ispat, patis, pisat, sipat, tapis, tipas

pista

1. Da-infinitive of pistma.

• IPA^(key): /pis.ta/
• Homophones: pistas, pistât

pista

1. third-person singular past historic of pister

• pâtis, tapis

Variant of pesta (“footprint”), technical senses influenced by French piste.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: pì‧sta

pista f (plural piste)

1. track, trail, scent, clue

   il poliziotto seguiva la pista dei complici del sospettato

   the police officer was following the trail of the suspect's accomplices

2. (sports) track, racetrack, racecourse, course, rink

   Synonyms: circuito, tracciato

   pista di Formula uno ― Formula One racetrack

3. (skiing) ski run, ski slope, piste, trail

   pista da sci ― ski slope

4. track (sound stored on a record, cassette, etc.)
5. (aviation) runway
6. (slang) line (of cocaine)

pista

1. make way

• depistare
• pesta
• pistard

• → French: piste (see there for further descendants)

• pista on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• pasti, spati, stipa

pista

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

pistā

1. ablative feminine singular of pistus

• pista in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

pista f (plural pistas)

1. track; road; path
   1. lane (division of roadway)

      Synonym: faixa

   2. racetrack (course over which any type of race is run)
   3. Clipping of pista de pouso. (runway)
   4. Clipping of pista de dança. (dancefloor)
2. footprints

   Synonyms: pegadas, rastro

3. clue (information that may lead one to a certain point or conclusion)

   Synonym: indício

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pista.

• IPA^(key): /pîsta/
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

pȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ста)

1. runway (for airplanes)

Borrowed from Italian pista. Compare English piston.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpista/ [ˈpis.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: pis‧ta

pista f (plural pistas)

1. track, course, trail
2. (aviation) runway
3. (bowling) lane
4. (sports, Spain) court (field on which tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, etc is played)

   Synonym: (Latin America) cancha

   pista de baloncesto ― basketball court

5. clue, fingerprint

   Synonym: indicio

• “pista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Early borrowing from Spanish fiesta. Compare Malay pesta. Doublet of piyesta, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /pisˈta/, [pɪsˈta]
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

pistá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. feast day; festival; festivity

   Synonym: pagdiriwang

   Ika-16 ng Enero ang pista ng Santo Niño. ― The feast of the Santo Niño is at January 16.

2. feast or banquet associated with a feast day

   Synonyms: piyesta, piging, handa

3. (obsolete) feast kept outside of a Sunday or a patron holiday [16th–17th c.]

• piyasta — obsolete

• IPA^(key): /pisˈtaʔ/, [pɪsˈtaʔ]
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

pistâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. act of undervaluing or underrating, in a mean manner, the merits of someone or something; faultfinding; belittlement

   Synonyms: pintas, puna, pula, pagmamaliit

Borrowed from Spanish pista (“track; course”).

• IPA^(key): /pisˈtaʔ/, [pɪsˈtaʔ]
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

pistâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. lane

   Synonym: daan

• “pista”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Rosalio Serrano (1854) Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎ (in Spanish), page 110
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 320: “Fieſta) Piſta ([pc]) C. que ſe guarda fuera del domingo ola fieſta del patron”
  • page 417: “Menos preciar) Piſta (pc) C. teniẽdo [a otro] en poco”