piste
French
noun
Definitions
- track or trail left by an animal or person
- track road or other similar beaten path
- (figurative) lead, hint e.g. in a police investigation
- (aviation) runway
- (music) track on a recording
- racecourse
- ring in a circus
- floor various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing
- (skiing) piste
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pista.
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
pista
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- piste English
- Pilumnus Latin
- pilum Latin
- pinso Latin
- pinsāre Latin
- pistillum Latin
- pistrīnum Latin
- pistōrem Latin
- pīlum Latin
- pīnsus Latin
- pīnsō Latin
- Landepiste German
- Piste German
- Skipiste German
- autopista Italian
- baciapile Italian
- ciclopista Italian
- fuoripista Italian
- motopista Italian
- pigiata Italian
- pista Italian
- pistino Italian
- denkpiste Dutch, Flemish
- piste Dutch, Flemish
- pistard French
- pister French
- pista Spanish, Castilian
- *peys- Proto-Indo-European
- *pis-en-om Proto-Indo-European
- *pěstъ Proto-Slavic
- *pьxati Proto-Slavic
- πίστα Greek (modern)
- pisti Lithuanian
- *piṣáti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- пихати Old East Slavic
- *paiš- Proto-Iranian