cit
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]cit (plural cits)
- (derogatory, now rare): a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
- 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
- […] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being.
- 1760 January 28 (first performance), [Samuel] Foote, The Minor, a Comedy. […], London: […] J. Coote, […]; G[eorge] Kearsly, […]; T[homas] Davies, […], published 1760, →OCLC, Act II, page 56:
- Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.
- 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza:
- Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.
- 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC:
- If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cit (plural cits)
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cit m inan (related adjective citový)
Declension
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[edit]- bezcitný m
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “cit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “cit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Esperanto
[edit]- Wiktionary does not have any Esperanto dictionary entry for this term. This is because the term has not yet been shown to be attested in a way that satisfies our criteria for inclusion.
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Gallo
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]cit m (plural cits)
Lashi
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[edit]cit
References
[edit]- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Latin
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[edit]cit
Old English
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[edit]ċīt
Old French
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[edit]From Latin cīvitās via the nominative singular. Compare citet, from the Latin accusative cīvitātem.
Noun
[edit]cit
- Synonym of citet
References
[edit]Van Emdem, Wolfgang G. 2000. Medieval French representations of city and other walls. In Tracy, James (ed.), City walls: The urban enceinte in global perspective, 540. Cambridge University Press.
Old Irish
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[edit]Univerbation of cía (“though”) + bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive)
Pronunciation
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[edit]cit
- though… (they) are (subjunctive)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
- Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn.
- Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cit | chit | cit pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Pali
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[edit]cit
- root of cintayati
Zhuang
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɕit˥/
- Tone numbers: cit7
- Hyphenation: cit
Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Tai *cɯːtᴰ (“insipid”). Cognate with Thai จืด (jʉ̀ʉt), Lao ຈືດ (chư̄t), Shan ၸိုတ်ႇ (tsùet).
Adjective
[edit]cit (Sawndip forms 𰝘 or 𭶈 or 泏 or 㲺 or 咄 or 𠮟 or ⿰米直 or ⿰淡出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Cognate with Thai จุด?”)
Verb
[edit]cit (Sawndip forms 炪 or 𤊧 or 咄 or 𰞩 or 𭵎 or ⿺燒出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)
Etymology 3
[edit]Classifier
[edit]cit (1957–1982 spelling cit)
- Used for performances, e.g., plays, operas, storytellings.
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