chiste
See also: chisté
Middle English
Noun
chiste
- Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)
Spanish
Etymology
From chistar (“to joke”), from chist, of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃiste/ [ˈt͡ʃis.t̪e]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -iste
- Syllabification: chis‧te
Noun
chiste m (plural chistes)
- joke (told joke)
- Synonym: broma
- essence, importance, matter or purpose of something
- El chiste es conseguir trabajo
- the matter (or purpose) is to get a job
Derived terms
- cuentachistes
Related terms
- chistoso
- chistar
Verb
chiste
- inflection of chistar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “chiste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tarantino
Pronoun
chiste m pl
- these, these ones