"cesta" meaning in Czech

See cesta in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈt͡sɛsta] Audio: Cs-cesta.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛsta Etymology: Inherited from Old Czech cěsta, from Proto-Slavic *cěsta. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|cs|zlw-ocs|cěsta|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Czech cěsta, {{inh+|cs|zlw-ocs|cěsta}} Inherited from Old Czech cěsta, {{inh|cs|sla-pro|*cěsta}} Proto-Slavic *cěsta Head templates: {{cs-noun|f|dim=cestička,cestka}} cesta f (diminutive cestička or cestka) Inflection templates: {{cs-ndecl|f}} Forms: cestička [diminutive], cestka [diminutive], no-table-tags [table-tags], cesta [nominative, singular], cesty [nominative, plural], cesty [genitive, singular], cest [genitive, plural], cestě [dative, singular], cestám [dative, plural], cestu [accusative, singular], cesty [accusative, plural], cesto [singular, vocative], cesty [plural, vocative], cestě [locative, singular], cestách [locative, plural], cestou [instrumental, singular], cestami [instrumental, plural]
  1. road Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cesta-cs-noun-NiooSVLT Categories (other): Czech terms with collocations, Roads Disambiguation of Roads: 76 4 20
  2. journey Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cesta-cs-noun-zeVokrvr Categories (other): Czech entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Czech entries with incorrect language header: 8 57 35
  3. path (graph theory) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cesta-cs-noun-~p9Ng8eo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cestovní [adjective], cestující [adjective], cestář [noun], cestička [noun], cestování [noun], rozcestí [noun], rozcestník [noun], scestí [noun], cestovat [verb], pěšina, silnice, stezka, trasa

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Czech dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.