Words that come from Latin “cista”

120 words across 36 languages descend from Latin cista — including chest, cistern, chested, cist, kist, chesty, cisternal, barechested.

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English (32)

Italian (11)

Dutch (9)

Spanish (6)

Esperanto (4)

Portuguese (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Middle English (4)

Latin (3)

Irish (3)

Romansch (3)

Old English (3)

German (3)

Swedish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Ido (2)

Danish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Manx (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Asturian (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Czech (1)

French (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Istriot (1)

Friulian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Romanian (1)

Old French (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle High German (1)