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arista

Spanish, noun/aˈɾista/

arista is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “edge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Línea donde se intersecan dos planos, vista por la parte exterior del ángulo que forma”.

What does arista mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineedge (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet)

  2. 2

    femininearête

  3. 3

    femininearris

  4. 4

    feminineawn

  5. 5

    femininefacets

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Línea donde se intersecan dos planos, vista por la parte exterior del ángulo que forma. 2. Enlace o relación existente entre un par de nodos o vértices. 3. parte de la gluma o de la glumela a modo de apendice. Por ejemplo: esa graminea tiene aristas en solo en las glumelas, es decir de glumelas aristadas.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of arista

  • aristas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce arista?

  • /aˈɾista/
  • [aˈɾis.t̪a]
  • [aˈɾist̪a]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to arista

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is arista in Spanish?

arista appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).