cit

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cit"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Chittagonian.

Symbol

cit

2. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Chittagonian.

   Synonym: ctg (current standard)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Chittagonian terms

English

Alternative forms

• cit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

Clipping of citizen.

Noun

cit (plural cits)

2. (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?

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 154:

     As a new-comer in the township, as a cit, and a devotee to beer, Cummings was an excuse to keep an eye on Millie[.]

Derived terms

• citess
• cittess

Etymology 2

Clipping of citation.

Noun

cit (plural cits)

2. Clipping of citation

   Alternative form: cite

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

Albanian

Etymology

Used mostly by Arbëreshë of Sicily, in passive voice citem (“to get full”). From Proto-Albanian *tˢeita, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeiətos. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *čitъ (“whole”), Lithuanian ki̇́etas (“hard”).
Alternative rejected proposed origins include the affiliation with σιτεύω (sitévo, “to feed”) but which would have given *sitis or *citis in Albanian, Meyer's derivation from τσιτώνω (tsitóno, “to tighten”) with too distant meanings, and the derivation from Slavic Macedonian sit (“full”) which is derived from *čitъ (whole) mentioned above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sit/

Verb

cit (aorist cita, participle citur)

1. to fill completely, to stuff

   Synonyms: rras, ngjesh

2. to satiate

   Synonyms: ngop, ngij, dend, fo

Conjugation

Standard Albanian conjugation of cit (active voice)

• Show compound tenses:  

		participle		citur
		gerund		duke citur
		infinitive		për të citur
singular			plural
1st pers.	2nd pers.	3rd pers.	1st pers.	2nd pers.	3rd pers.
indicative	present	cit	cit	cit	citim	citni	citin
	imperfect	citja	citje	citte	citnim	citnit	citnin
	aorist	cita	cite	citi	citëm	citët	citën
perfect	kam citur	ke citur	ka citur	kemi citur	keni citur	kanë citur
past perfect	kisha citur	kishe citur	kishte citur	kishim citur	kishit citur	kishin citur
aorist II	pata citur	pate citur	pati citur	patëm citur	patët citur	patën citur
future1	do të cit	do të citësh	do të citë	do të citim	do të citni	do të citin
future perfect2	do të kem citur	do të kesh citur	do të ketë citur	do të kemi citur	do të keni citur	do të kenë citur
subjunctive	present	të cit	të citësh	të citë	të citim	të citni	të citin
imperfect	të citja	të citje	të citte	të citnim	të citnit	të citnin
perfect	të kem citur	të kesh citur	të ketë citur	të kemi citur	të keni citur	të kenë citur
past perfect	të kisha citur	të kishe citur	të kishte citur	të kishim citur	të kishit citur	të kishin citur
conditional1, 2	imperfect	do të citja	do të citje	do të citte	do të citnim	do të citnit	do të citnin
	past perfect	do të kisha citur	do të kishe citur	do të kishte citur	do të kishim citur	do të kishit citur	do të kishin citur
optative	present	citsha	citsh	cittë	citshim	citshit	citshin
perfect	paça citur	paç citur	pastë citur	paçim citur	paçit citur	paçin citur
admirative	present	citkam	citke	citka	citkemi	citkeni	citkan
	imperfect	citkësha	citkëshe	citkësh	citkëshim	citkëshit	citkëshin
perfect	paskam citur	paske citur	paska citur	paskemi citur	paskeni citur	paskan citur
past perfect	paskësha citur	paskëshe citur	paskësh citur	paskëshim citur	paskëshit citur	paskëshin citur
imperative	present	—	cit	—	—	citni	—
1) indicative future identical with conditional present 2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect

Derived terms

• citë

Further reading

• “cit”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from cítit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪt]

• Audio:

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Noun

cit m inan (relational adjective citový)

1. feeling

   získat cit pro ― to get a feel for

   chovat cit ― to have affection

2. emotion

   Synonym: emoce

Declension

Declension of cit (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	cit	city
genitive	citu	citů
dative	citu	citům
accusative	cit	city
vocative	cite	city
locative	citu	citech
instrumental	citem	city

Derived terms

• bezcitný m

Related terms

• cítit

Further reading

• “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), 2008–2026

Esperanto

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Gallo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cit m (plural cits)

1. cider

Latin

Verb

cit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ciō

Old English

Verb

ċīt

1. second-person singular present indicative of ċīdan

Old French

Etymology

From Latin cīvitās via the nominative singular. Compare citet, from the Latin accusative cīvitātem.

Noun

cit

1. synonym of citet

References

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

Etymology

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +‎ bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲid̪/

Verb

cit

1. 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. 207^b11

     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”).

Mutation

Mutation of cit

radical	lenition	nasalization
cit	chit	cit pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀘𑀺𑀢𑁆 (Brahmi script)
• चित् (Devanagari script)
• চিত্ (Bengali script)
• චිත් (Sinhalese script)
• စိတ် or ၸိတ် (Burmese script)
• จิตฺ or จิต (Thai script)
• ᨧᩥᨲ᩺ (Tai Tham script)
• ຈິຕ຺ or ຈິຕ (Lao script)
• ចិត៑ (Khmer script)
• 𑄌𑄨𑄖𑄴 (Chakma script)

Verb

cit

1. root of cintayati

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕit˥/
• Tone numbers: cid⁷
• Hyphenation: cit

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *cɯːtᴰ (“insipid”). Cognate with Thai จืด (jʉ̀ʉt), Lao ຈືດ (chư̄t), Shan ၸိုတ်ႇ (tsùet).

Adjective

cit (Sawndip forms 𰝘 or 𭶈 or 泏 or 㲺 or 咄 or 𠮟 or ⿰米直 or ⿰淡出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)

1. bland; insipid

   Synonyms: (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) cuet, (dialectal) ciu

2. having poor appetite
3. cold; emotionally distant

   Synonyms: (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) cuet

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Cognate with Thai จุด?”)

Verb

cit (Sawndip forms 炪 or 𤊧 or 咄 or 𰞩 or 𭵎 or ⿺燒出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)

1. to ignite; to light; to start (a fire)

   Synonyms: diemj, (dialectal) gyot, (dialectal) lej

2. to smoke (a cigarette)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) gwn, (dialectal) cup, (dialectal) ndoet, (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) boep, (dialectal) coemh

   cit ien

   to smoke cigarettes

3. to treat with moxibustion

   Synonyms: (dialectal) huj, (dialectal) ndut, (dialectal) ndat, (dialectal) gyot, (dialectal) nat

Etymology 3

From Chinese 齣.

Classifier

cit (1957–1982 spelling cit)

1. Used for performances, e.g., plays, operas, storytellings.