balista

balista (plural balistas or balistae)

1. Alternative form of ballista.

• Baalist

From Latin balista, variant form of ballista. Doublet of ballesta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈlis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈlis.ta]

balista f (plural balistes)

1. (historical) ballista

• giny

• balístic

• “balista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalɪsta]

balista m anim

1. ballista

• “balista”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “balista”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra).

• IPA^(key): /baˈlis.ta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: ba‧lì‧sta

balista f (plural baliste)

1. ballista

• balista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• basalti

• balista: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baˈlɪs.ta]
• balista: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [baˈlis.t̪a]
  • Homophone: Balista
• balistā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baˈlɪs.taː]
• balistā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [baˈlis.t̪a]

balista f (genitive balistae); first declension

1. alternative form of ballista

First-declension noun.

• “balista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “balista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "balista", 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)
• balista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “balista”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Learned borrowing from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra).

• IPA^(key): /baˈlis.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: ba‧lis‧ta

balista f

1. (weaponry, historical) ballista

• balista in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Doublet of besta.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧lis‧ta

balista f (plural balistas)

1. ballista (siege engine)

• besta, manganela

From Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra).

• IPA^(key): /baˈlista/ [baˈlis.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: ba‧lis‧ta

balista f (plural balistas)

1. ballista

• “balista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024