-cito
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cito"
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citi)
- Alternative form of -cita (“-cyte”)
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “vessel, container”).
Suffix[edit]
-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citos)
Derived terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citos, feminine -cita, feminine plural -citas)
- Alternative form of -ito
Usage notes[edit]
- Added to masculine words and names to denote a diminutive form. It occurs especially with words ending in a consonant or a vowel other than -o, and does not delete the final vowel (contrast with -ito, which is added in place of a vowel that gets deleted).
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “vessel, container”).
Suffix[edit]
-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citos)
Related terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “-cito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ito
- Rhymes:Italian/ito/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian suffixes
- Italian noun-forming suffixes
- Italian countable suffixes
- Italian masculine suffixes
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese suffixes
- Portuguese noun-forming suffixes
- Portuguese countable suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes
- pt:Biology
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish masculine suffixes
- Spanish diminutive suffixes
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- es:Biology