cheste
Middle English
/tʃɛst/
noun
Definitions
- A large container; a chest or footlocker.
- A safe, strongbox; a secure chest for treasured items and possessions.
- A coffin or casket a box where the remains of the dead are stored
- chest, abdomen central portion of the body, home of the soul in medieval thought
- (rare) A basket or bowl; a container without a top side.
- (rare) A separated or divided area; a section.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ċest inherited from Proto-Germanic *kistō (chest, box) derived from Latin cista (chest, box, casket) derived from Ancient Greek κίστη (box, chest, basket, hamper) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (woven container).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kisteh₂
Gloss
woven container
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bookchest English
- chest English
- chestage English
- chestal English
- chested English
- chestful English
- chestguard English
- chestless English
- chestlike English
- chestly English
- chestpad English
- chesty English
- cist English
- coolchest English
- crescentchest English
- midchest English
- toychest English
- windchest English
- cista Latin
- cisterna Latin
- Kiste German
- cesta Italian
- cista Italian
- cesta Spanish, Castilian
- cesto Spanish, Castilian
- κίστη Ancient Greek
- *kisteh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- kiste Norwegian Bokmål
- cesta Portuguese
- *kistō Proto-Germanic
- cest Old English
- ċest Old English
- kesja Old Norse
- kista Old Norse
- kesto Esperanto
- kiste Middle Dutch
- kista Old High German
- cesta Romansh
- chaista Romansh
- chista Romansh
- cesta Asturian