Noun: cist
Sample Sentences
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A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived. [2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 66:]
Nouns inflected like cist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē). Doublet of chest. See: Latin Nouns '
cista', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κίστη'.
Verbs referencing "cist"
Spanish Nouns
cesta, Spanish Nouns
cesto.