nestis

== Esperanto == === Verb === nestis past of nesti == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῆστις (nêstis, “fasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-h₁ed-tis. Compare iēiūnum. === Noun === nēstis f (genitive nēstidis); third declension (anatomy) jejunum, the second part of the small intestine ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “nestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nestis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.