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|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[basket]], [[hamper]], <span class="bibl">Od.6.76</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>1098</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span> 5.7.5</span>, al., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>430.11</span>, al. (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Euph.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1.2.13</span> (κείστη), etc.; [[writing-case]], [[desk]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>529</span>; [[voting-urn]], Notiz.Arch. 4.20 (Cyrene, Aug.); = [[ἀγγεῖον πλεκτόν]], Hsch.; made of bark, Thphr.ll.cc.: hence distd. fr. <b class="b3">κιβωτός</b>, <span class="bibl">Ammon.<span class="title">Diff.</span>p.81</span> V.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[basket]], [[chest]] (ζ 76, Ar.),<br />Compounds: as 1. member in <b class="b3">κιστα-φόρος</b>, <b class="b3">-έω</b> [[basket bearer]] (Thrace, Macedon.), <b class="b3">κιστο-ειδής</b> [[like a chest]] (H. s. <b class="b3">ὀγκίον</b>).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">κιστίς</b> f. (Hp., Ar.), <b class="b3">κιστίδιον</b> (Artem.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Perhaps with OIr. [[cess]] f. <b class="b2">basket, (sheep)cot</b> from IE. <b class="b2">*kistā</b> beside <b class="b2">*kis-to-</b> in OIr. [[ciss-ib]] [[tortis]]; in that case prop. "twisted thing, twisted container" (Fick 2, 12). - Other proposals: to <b class="b3">κεῖμαι</b> (<b class="b3">κοίτη</b> also = [[chest]]) after Prellwitz s. v. (against this Bq); to Lat. [[cūra]] after v. Planta a. o. (s. W.-Hofmann s. [[cista]]); thus Hendriksen IF 56, 21ff. a. 24ff., who connects also Skt. <b class="b2">śeṣa-</b> [[rest]] and (with Fick BB 2, 266) Lith. <b class="b2">kìšti</b> [[put in]] (against this W.-Hofmann l. c. and 1, 859, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. v.). - From <b class="b3">κίστη</b> Lat. [[cista]], from where again the European forms, Ir. [[ciste]] m., OHG. [[kista]] etc. - Prob. Pre-Greek (cf. for the semantics <b class="b3">κιβωτός</b>).