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See also: Witer
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English waiter. Replaced by weyter.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: wi‧ter
Noun[edit]
witer (feminine witres)
- (dated) a waiter; a male attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:witer.
Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *witraz. Cognate with Old Norse vitr (“wise”).
Adjective[edit]
witer
Derived terms[edit]
- witran (“to inform”)
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “witter”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.