ristra

Borrowed from Spanish ristra.

ristra (plural ristras)

1. An arrangement of chili pepper pods (or sometimes garlic) to aid drying and sometimes to serve as a decoration.

• triars

From Old Spanish riestra, from riesta, from rieste, from Latin restem.

/-e/ > /-a/ probably due to the word's feminine gender. For the additional /ɾ/, compare rastrojo < *restucŭlum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈristɾa/ [ˈris.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -istɾa
• Syllabification: ris‧tra

ristra f (plural ristras)

1. string
2. ristra

• → English: ristra

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “ristra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 34

• “ristra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014