piste

From French piste.

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• IPA^(key): /pɪst/, /piːst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst, -iːst

piste (plural pistes)

1. (skiing) A downhill trail.

   They were skiing on the piste.

2. (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
3. (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.

• off-piste

• IP set, piets, septi-, spite, stipe

From French piste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpistə/

piste f (plural pistes, diminutive pistetje n)

1. racetrack for athletic contests
2. (skiing) piste
3. (circus) circus ring
4. (Belgium) trail, track

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪstə/

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piste

1. inflection of pissen:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

From Proto-Finnic *pistek (“sting, prick”). Equivalent to pistää (“to sting, prick”) +‎ -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall in 1826 and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt in 1835; other meanings derive from those two.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisteˣ/, [ˈpis̠te̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification^(key): pis‧te

piste

1. (typography) point, dot, full stop, period
2. (mathematics) point (zero-dimensional object)
3. point (particular location)

   Synonym: kohta

4. point, dot (something tiny)

   Synonyms: läikkä, pilkku, täplä

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)

• “piste”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• pesit, pesti, petsi, tepsi

• IPA^(key): /pist/

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

piste f (plural pistes)

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

   Une piste automobile dans le désert.

   A car track in the desert.

   piste cyclable ― bicycle path

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

   La police est sur la piste d’un complot.

   The police are following a lead in a conspiracy.

4. (aviation) runway

   piste d’atterrissage ― landing runway

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

   piste de danse ― dance floor

9. (skiing) piste

   piste de ski ― ski piste, ski slope, ski trail

   piste de luge ― sled or sledge track

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

piste

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

• “piste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ste/
• Rhymes: -iste
• Hyphenation: pì‧ste

piste f

1. plural of pista

• Tespi, pesti

piste

1. vocative masculine singular of pistus

• piste 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)

piste

1. adverbial būdinys participle of pisti

• IPA^(key): /ˈpistɐ/

piste m

1. plural of pisto

Compare Persian پسته (peste).

• IPA^(key): /pɪsˈtɛ/

piste f (Arabic spelling پسته)

1. pistachio

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “piste”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 459

• pissa, pisset

piste

1. simple past of pisse