byte

See also: Byte and bytě

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A mutation of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /baɪt/
Audio (US)
(file)
Rhymes: -aɪt
Homophones: bight, bite, by't

Noun[edit]

byte (plural bytes)

(computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
(computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.
Synonyms: B, octet

The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

Derived terms[edit]

(unit of storage):

Compound words

Coordinate terms[edit]

(unit of storage):

Previous: bit
Next: kilobyte

(machine word):

Previous: nybble
Next: word

Translations[edit]

8-bit unit

Afrikaans: greep (af)
Arabic: بَايْت‎ m (bāyt)
Armenian: բայտ (hy) (bayt)
Azerbaijani: bayt
Belarusian: байт m (bajt)
Bengali: বাইট (baiṭ)
Breton: eizhbit (br) m
Bulgarian: байт m (bajt)
Burmese: ဘိုက် (bhuik)
Catalan: byte (ca) m, octet m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 字節, 字节 (zi⁶ zit³), 位元組, 位元组 (wai⁶ jyun⁴ zou²)

Mandarin: 字節 (zh), 字节 (zh) (zìjié), 位元組 (zh), 位元组 (zh) (wèiyuánzǔ)
Czech: bajt (cs) m, byte (cs) m
Esperanto: bitoko, bajto
Estonian: bait (et)
Finnish: tavu (fi)
French: octet (fr) m
Galician: byte (gl) m
Georgian: ბაიტი (baiṭi)
German: Byte (de) n
Greek: μπάιτ (báit), δυφιοσυλλαβή (el) (dyfiosyllaví), δυφιοοκτάδα (el) (dyfiooktáda)
Hebrew: בַּיִת‎ (he) (báyit)
Hindi: बाइट (bāiṭ)
Hungarian: byte (hu)
Icelandic: bæti (is) n, (computer character) tölvustafur m
Ido: bicoko (io)
Interlingua: byte
Italian: byte (it) m
Japanese: バイト (ja) (baito)
Kazakh: байт (bayt)
Khmer: បៃ (km) (bai)
Korean: 바이트 (ko) (baiteu)

Kyrgyz: байт (bayt)
Lao: ໄບຕ໌ (bait), ໄບ (bai)
Latin: octetus m
Latvian: baits m
Lithuanian: baitas (lt) m
Lü: ᦢᦺ (ḃay)
Macedonian: бајт m (bajt)
Malay: bait
Maori: paita
Navajo: łaʼííłké
Northern Thai: ᨷᩱ
Persian: بایت‎ (fa) (bâyt)
Polish: bajt (pl) m
Portuguese: byte (pt) m, baite (pt) m
Romanian: byte (ro) m, octet (ro) m
Russian: байт (ru) m (bajt), окте́т (ru) m (oktét)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бајт m

Roman: bajt (sh) m
Sinhalese: බයිට (bayiṭa)
Slovak: bajt m, byte m
Spanish: byte (es) m
Swedish: byte (sv) c
Tajik: байт (tg) (bayt)
Thai: ไบต์ (th) (bái)
Turkish: bayt (tr)
Ukrainian: байт (uk) m (bajt)
Urdu: لکمہ‎
Uyghur: بايت‎ (bayt)
Uzbek: bayt (uz)
Vietnamese: byte (vi)
Zulu: isimumathalwazi

References[edit]

^ Werner Buchholz (February 1977), “The Word “Byte” Comes Of Age”, in Byte Magazine‎^[1], volume 2, issue 2, page 144: “A byte was described as consisting of any number of parallel bits from one to six. Thus a byte was assumed to have a length appropriate for the occasion.”
^ “Timeline Of The IBM Stretch/Harvest Era (1956–1961)”, in Computer History Museum‎^[2], (please provide a date or year)
^ “Definition of 'Byte'”, in The Jargon File‎^[3], 2003, archived from the original on 1 July 2003, retrieved 23 March 2007

Anagrams[edit]

beyt

Czech[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

byte

Wikipedia ^cs

Alternative forms[edit]

bajt

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈbajt]

Noun[edit]

byte m

byte

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈbɪtɛ]
Homophone: bite

Noun[edit]

byte

vocative singular of byt

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English byte.

Noun[edit]

byte

(slang, rare) byte

Declension[edit]

Inflection of byte (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		byte	bytet
genitive		byten	bytejen
partitive		byteä	bytejä
illative		byteen	byteihin
		singular	plural
nominative		byte	bytet
accusative	nom.	byte	bytet
accusative	gen.	byten	bytet
genitive		byten	bytejen bytein^rare
partitive		byteä	bytejä
inessive		bytessä	byteissä
elative		bytestä	byteistä
illative		byteen	byteihin
adessive		bytellä	byteillä
ablative		byteltä	byteiltä
allative		bytelle	byteille
essive		bytenä	byteinä
translative		byteksi	byteiksi
instructive		—	bytein
abessive		bytettä	byteittä
comitative		—	byteineen

Possessive forms of byte (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	byteni	bytemme
2nd person	bytesi	bytenne
3rd person	bytensä

Synonyms[edit]

tavu

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English byte.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈbaːjt]
Hyphenation: byte
Rhymes: -aːjt
Homophone: bájt

Noun[edit]

byte (plural byte-ok)

(computing) byte (a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits)

Usage notes[edit]

It also occurs in the form bájt (along with its prefixed forms), but this spelling is not supported by most authoritative spelling dictionaries.

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	byte	byte-ok
accusative	byte-ot	byte-okat
dative	byte-nak	byte-oknak
instrumental	byte-tal	byte-okkal
causal-final	byte-ért	byte-okért
translative	byte-tá	byte-okká
terminative	byte-ig	byte-okig
essive-formal	byte-ként	byte-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	byte-ban	byte-okban
superessive	byte-on	byte-okon
adessive	byte-nál	byte-oknál
illative	byte-ba	byte-okba
sublative	byte-ra	byte-okra
allative	byte-hoz	byte-okhoz
elative	byte-ból	byte-okból
delative	byte-ról	byte-okról
ablative	byte-tól	byte-októl
non-attributive possessive - singular	byte-é	byte-oké
non-attributive possessive - plural	byte-éi	byte-okéi

Possessive forms of byte
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	byte-om	byte-jaim
2nd person sing.	byte-od	byte-jaid
3rd person sing.	byte-ja	byte-jai
1st person plural	byte-unk	byte-jaink
2nd person plural	byte-otok	byte-jaitok
3rd person plural	byte-juk	byte-jaik

References[edit]

^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English byte.

Noun[edit]

byte m (invariable)

(computing) byte
Synonym: bicarattere

Middle English[edit]

Verb[edit]

byte

Alternative form of biten

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

baite

Pronunciation[edit]

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

Noun[edit]

byte m (plural bytes)

(computing) byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)

Synonyms[edit]

Abbreviations: B

Coordinate terms[edit]

Multiples: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms[edit]

bit

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English byte.

Noun[edit]

byte m (plural byți)

(computing) byte

Declension[edit]

Declension of byte

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) byte	byteul	(niște) byți	byții
genitive/dative	(unui) byte	byteului	(unor) byți	byților
vocative	byteule		byților

Slovak[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

bajt

Noun[edit]

byte m

byte

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English byte.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈbait/, [ˈbai̯t̪]

Noun[edit]

byte m (plural bytes)

byte

Swedish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Related to byta (“to change, to exchange, to swap”)

Pronunciation[edit]

audio
(file)
IPA^(key): /ˈbyːtɛ/

Noun[edit]

byte n

trading, exchange, change
catch, plunder, loot

Declension[edit]

Declension of byte
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	byte	bytet	byten	bytena
Genitive	bytes	bytets	bytens	bytenas

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English byte.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bajt/, /baɪt/

Noun[edit]

byte c

a byte (8 bits, in computers)

Declension[edit]

Declension of byte
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	byte	byten	byte	byten
Genitive	bytes	bytens	bytes	bytens

References[edit]

byte in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

[1] Werner Buchholz (February 1977), “The Word “Byte” Comes Of Age”, in Byte Magazine‎^[1], volume 2, issue 2, page 144: “A byte was described as consisting of any number of parallel bits from one to six. Thus a byte was assumed to have a length appropriate for the occasion.”

[2] “Timeline Of The IBM Stretch/Harvest Era (1956–1961)”, in Computer History Museum‎^[2], (please provide a date or year)

[3] “Definition of 'Byte'”, in The Jargon File‎^[3], 2003, archived from the original on 1 July 2003, retrieved 23 March 2007

[4] Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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