# aresta
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin arista.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾes.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈɾes.ta]

### Noun

aresta f (plural arestes)
* awn, arista (the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc.)
* fishbone
    Synonym: espina
* splinter
* (geometry) edge (joining line between two vertices of a polygon)

#### Derived terms

* arestós

### Further reading

* “aresta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “aresta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “aresta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “aresta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin arista. Doublet of arista, which was borrowed.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈɾestɐ]

### Noun

aresta f (plural arestas)
* awn, arista (the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc.)
    Synonym: argana
** 1820, anonymous author, Diálogo entre Dominjos è Farruco:acababannos con todo canto tiñamos sin deixârnos nin un-a arestathey ended with everything we had and didn't leave us not even an awn
* flax bast and chaff
    Synonyms: tasco, tomento
* ridge (line of intersection)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aresta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aresta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aresta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aresta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Ladin
### Verb

aresta
* third-person singular present indicative of arester
* third-person plural present indicative of arester
* second-person singular imperative of arester

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin arista. Doublet of arista, which was borrowed.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈɾɛs.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈɾɛs.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /aˈɾɛʃ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aˈɾɛs.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈɾɛʃ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
* Hyphenation: a‧res‧ta

### Noun

aresta f (plural arestas)
* (geometry) edge (joining line between two vertices of a polygon)
* (graph theory) line (edge of a graph)
    Synonym: arco
* (graph theory) edge (any of the pairs of vertices in a graph)
* ridge (line of intersection)
* (entomology) (Diabrotica speciosa) cucurbit beetle
    Synonyms: alfinete, bicho-galo, bicha-amarela, bicha-do-milho, câncer, travela

### Further reading

* “aresta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
* “aresta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

## Romanian
### Etymology

From arest, or based on French arrêter, Italian arrestare.

### Verb

a aresta (third-person singular present arestează, past participle arestat) 1st conj.
* to arrest

#### Derived terms

* arestare

#### Related terms

* arest

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin arista

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈɾesta/ [aˈɾes.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -esta
* Syllabification: a‧res‧ta

### Noun

aresta f (plural arestas)
* thorn
    Synonyms: espina, aguja, púa, pincho

### Further reading

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