cuesta

See also: Cuesta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cuesta. Doublet of coast.

Noun

cuesta (plural cuestas)

(geomorphology) slope (acclivity or declivity).

Anagrams

Escaut, acutes, causet, scutae

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkwe̞s.ta̠]
See also: encuesta, puesta, tuesta

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”), later coming to mean "edge" or "coast" in Medieval Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Compare the doublet costa.

Noun

cuesta f (plural cuestas)

(geology) slope (acclivity or declivity)

Synonyms

pendiente

Derived terms

Related terms

a costa de
acostar
costado
costilla

Etymology 2

See costar

Verb

cuesta

Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of costar.
Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of costar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of costar.

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