cist

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪst/, /ˈkɪst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst
• Homophones: cyst, kissed

Borrowed from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē). Doublet of chest.

cist (plural cists)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.

Borrowed from Welsh cist (“chest”) (see kistvaen), from Latin cista (“chest, casket”), see above.

cist (plural cists)

2. (archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.
   • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 66:

     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.

• kist

• cist-urn

• cist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• tics, TCIs, cits, ICTs, TICs, cits., CTIS

• ċest

From Proto-West Germanic *kistu.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃist/

ċist f

1. box, chest

Strong ō-stem:

• hræġlċist
• lǣċeċist
• māþmċist

• Middle English: cheste, chist, chiste, chyst, cyst, kist, kiste, kyst, kyste, cæste (Early Middle English)
  • English: chest
  • Scots: kist
• → Middle Irish: ciste
  • Irish: ciste
• → Welsh: cist

From Vulgar Latin *ecce iste.

cist

1. this; this one

• cel, cil

• Middle French: cest
  • French: cet

From Old English cist or Middle English kist.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kiːsd/, [kʰiːst]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kɪsd/, [kʰɪst]
• Rhymes: -ɪsd

cist f (plural cistiau)

1. chest, trunk
2. (automotive) boot, trunk

   Synonym: bŵt

3. (archaeology) cist

• sêl cist car

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cist”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies