dite

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dite"

English

Etymology 1

See dight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪt

Verb

dite (third-person singular simple present dites, present participle diting, simple past and past participle dited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     His hideous club aloft he dites.

References

• “dite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Variant of doit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪt/

Noun

dite (plural dites)

1. (US, Maine) A trifling quantity or amount.

   A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.

   • 2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95:

     Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”

   • 1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     “Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”

Anagrams

• -tide, DIET, Diet, diet, diët, edit, edit., tide, tied

Albanian

Noun

dite

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of ditë

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dit/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Participle

dite f sg

1. feminine singular of dit

Further reading

• “dite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• édit

Galician

Verb

dite

1. inflection of ditar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

dite

1. inflection of dire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• tedi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.te]

Adjective

dīte

1. ablative masculine/feminine singular of dīs
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dītis

Malagasy

Etymology

From French du thé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dite/

Noun

dite

1. tea

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French thé.

Noun

dite

1. tea

References

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

dite

1. inflection of ditar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French thé.

Noun

dite

1. tea

References

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN

Spanish

Verb

dite

1. second-person singular imperative of decir combined with te