Arête

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

• arete

Origin

Borrowing from fr {{2}} arête, from Latin arista.

Full definition of arête

Noun

1. (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
• 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.

Anagrams

• eater, teare