pita
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpiːtə/
- Rhymes: -ɪtə, -iːtə
- Homophone: PETA (US)
- Homophone: Peter (non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”), more at pizza.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita (plural pitas)
- A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
Translations[edit]
|
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).
Noun[edit]
pita (countable and uncountable, plural pitas)
- A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
- The plant which yields the fiber.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pita”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pites)
- hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))
Synonyms[edit]
Bikol Central[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pitâ
Buhi'non Bikol[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pites)
- century plant
- Synonym: atzavara
- pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pites)
- pita (flat bread pouch)
Further reading[edit]
- “pita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “pita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f
Declension[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle[edit]
pita
- inflection of pít:
Further reading[edit]
- pita in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- pita in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Declension[edit]
Inflection of pita (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | pita | pitat | ||
genitive | pitan | pitojen | ||
partitive | pitaa | pitoja | ||
illative | pitaan | pitoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pita | pitat | ||
accusative | nom. | pita | pitat | |
gen. | pitan | |||
genitive | pitan | pitojen pitainrare | ||
partitive | pitaa | pitoja | ||
inessive | pitassa | pitoissa | ||
elative | pitasta | pitoista | ||
illative | pitaan | pitoihin | ||
adessive | pitalla | pitoilla | ||
ablative | pitalta | pitoilta | ||
allative | pitalle | pitoille | ||
essive | pitana | pitoina | ||
translative | pitaksi | pitoiksi | ||
abessive | pitatta | pitoitta | ||
instructive | — | pitoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]


Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pitas)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Spanish pita, from an American language.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pitas)
- century plant
- pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
- pita (the plant which yields the fiber)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
pita
- inflection of pitar:
References[edit]
- “pita” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “pita” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “pita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “pita”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Guaraní[edit]
Verb[edit]
pita
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French plus tard (“later”).
Adverb[edit]
pita
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Portuguese fita, from Latin vitta.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pita” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pite)
- pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)
- Synonym: pane arabo
Anagrams[edit]
Limos Kalinga[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
pita
Lubuagan Kalinga[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Anagrams[edit]
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f
Declension[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle[edit]
pita
Further reading[edit]
- pita in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pita in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita m (plural pitas)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pitas)
- Furcraea foetida, a fibrous, ornamental plant of the Americas
- Synonym: piteira
- agave (any plant of the genus Agave)
- pita (fibre obtained from agaves)
- feminine of puto
- (slang, Portugal) jailbait
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
pita
- inflection of pitar:
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).
Noun[edit]
pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)
Declension[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
pita (Cyrillic spelling пита)
Slovene[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
píta f
- pie (type of pastry)
Inflection[edit]
Feminine, a-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | píta | ||
gen. sing. | píte | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
píta | píti | píte |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
píte | pít | pít |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
píti | pítama | pítam |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
píto | píti | píte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
píti | pítah | pítah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
píto | pítama | pítami |
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pitas)
- century plant (Agave americana)
- Synonym: (Latin America) maguey
- pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita f (plural pitas)
- pita (flat bread pouch)
- Synonym: pan de pita
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
pita
- inflection of pitar:
Further reading[edit]
- “pita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Verb[edit]
-pita (infinitive kupita)
- to pass, exceed, surpass
- (euphemistic) to die
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of -pita | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Infinitives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Imperatives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tensed forms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. |
Derived terms[edit]
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pita
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pitâ
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪtə
- Rhymes:English/iːtə
- Rhymes:English/iːtə/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
- English terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Agavoideae subfamily plants
- en:Breads
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- Bikol Central terms with IPA pronunciation
- Bikol Central lemmas
- Bikol Central nouns
- bcl:Anatomy
- Bikol Central childish terms
- Buhi'non Bikol lemmas
- Buhi'non Bikol nouns
- Catalan 2-syllable words
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms borrowed from Spanish
- Catalan terms derived from Spanish
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- Catalan terms borrowed from Greek
- Catalan terms derived from Greek
- ca:Plants
- ca:Breads
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech hard feminine nouns
- Czech non-lemma forms
- Czech participle forms
- cs:Foods
- Finnish terms derived from Greek
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/itɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/itɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Galician onomatopoeias
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- Galician terms borrowed from Spanish
- Galician terms derived from Spanish
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- gl:Birds
- gl:Chickens
- gl:Baby animals
- gl:Female animals
- Guaraní lemmas
- Guaraní verbs
- Haitian Creole terms derived from French
- Haitian Creole lemmas
- Haitian Creole adverbs
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Indonesian terms derived from Portuguese
- Indonesian terms derived from Latin
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Physics
- id:Computing
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ita
- Rhymes:Italian/ita/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Limos Kalinga lemmas
- Limos Kalinga nouns
- Lower Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lower Sorbian non-lemma forms
- Lower Sorbian participle forms
- Lubuagan Kalinga lemmas
- Lubuagan Kalinga nouns
- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali noun forms
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ita
- Rhymes:Polish/ita/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish participle forms
- pl:Foods
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese slang
- Portuguese Portuguese
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- pt:Asparagus family plants
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Greek
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Greek
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian verb forms
- sh:Foods
- Slovene terms borrowed from Greek
- Slovene terms derived from Greek
- Slovene 2-syllable words
- Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovene lemmas
- Slovene nouns
- Slovene feminine nouns
- Slovene feminine a-stem nouns
- sl:Foods
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Breads
- es:Agavoideae subfamily plants
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili verbs
- Swahili euphemisms
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns