recite

See also: récite, récité, and recité

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French reciter, from Latin recitare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsaɪt/

Verb

1. (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
2. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
3. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

Synonyms

• (repeat aloud): declaim, go through, spout
• (list or enumerate something): tabulate; see also Thesaurus:tick off

Related terms

• recit
• recitation

Translations

to recite — see say

to repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text

• Arabic: تَلَا (talā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 背誦／背诵 (zh) (bèisòng), 背诵 (zh) (bèisòng)

• Czech: recitovat
• Danish: recitere (da)
• Dutch: reciteren (nl)
• Esperanto: deklami
• Finnish: lausua (fi)
• French: réciter (fr)
• Galician: recitar (gl)
• German: vortragen (de); rezitieren (de); zu Gehör bringen; (poem also:) aufsagen (de); deklamieren (de)
• Greek: απαγγέλλω (el) (apangéllo)
• Hungarian: felmond (hu), szaval (hu)
• Japanese: 暗唱する (ja) (あんしょうする, anshō suru), 吟ずる (ぎんずる, ginzuru)
• Korean: 부르다 (ko) (bureuda), 암송하다 (ko) (amsonghada), 읊다 (ko) (eupda), 낭독하다 (nangdokhada), 복창하다 (bokchanghada)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: recitō
• Maori: tātaku, takutaku, takitaki, whakaaraara, tohitū (without a break), taki
• Norman: r'citer
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: resitere

  Nynorsk: resitere, resitera

• Persian: برخواندن (fa) (barxândan)
• Polish: recytować (pl)
• Portuguese: recitar (pt)
• Rapa Nui: rongorongo
• Russian: деклами́ровать (ru) impf (deklamírovatʹ), продеклами́ровать (ru) pf (prodeklamírovatʹ), цити́ровать (ru) impf (citírovatʹ), процити́ровать (ru) pf (procitírovatʹ)
• Spanish: recitar (es)
• Thai: ท่อง (th) (tɔ̂ng)
• Welsh: adrodd (cy)

to list or enumerate something

• Finnish: luetella (fi)
• Greek: απαριθμώ (el) (aparithmó)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: felsorol (hu)
• Russian: перечисля́ть (ru) impf (perečisljátʹ), перечи́слить (ru) pf (perečíslitʹ)

to deliver a recitation

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: resitere

  Nynorsk: resitere, resitera

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Rapa Nui: rongorongo
• Russian: деклами́ровать (ru) impf (deklamírovatʹ), продеклами́ровать (ru) pf (prodeklamírovatʹ), цити́ровать (ru) impf (citírovatʹ), процити́ровать (ru) pf (procitírovatʹ)

Anagrams

• cerite, receit, tierce, tiercé

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Italian

Noun

recite f

1. plural of recita

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Portuguese

Verb

recite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of recitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of recitar
3. third-person singular imperative of recitar

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Spanish

Verb

recite

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of recitar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recitar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recitar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of recitar.