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English

Etymology

A mutation of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: bight, bite, by't

Noun

byte (plural bytes)

1. (computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
2. (computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

   Synonyms: B, octet

Derived terms

(unit of storage):

• kilobyte
• megabyte
• gigabyte
• terabyte
• petabyte
• exabyte
• zettabyte
• yottabyte

Related terms

(unit of storage):

• Previous: bit
• Next: kilobyte

(machine word):

• Previous: nybble
• Next: word

Translations

See also

• word, doubleword, longword, char

Further reading

• byte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• beyt

Czech

Alternative forms

• bajt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bajt]

Noun

byte m

1. byte

Derived terms

• kilobyte
• megabyte
• gigabyte
• terabyte

Further reading

• byte in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English byte.

Noun

byte

1. (slang, rare) byte

Declension

Synonyms

• tavu

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ba?jt]
• Hyphenation: byte
• Rhymes: -a?jt

Noun

byte (plural byte-ok)

1. (computing) byte (a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits)

Usage notes

It also occurs in the form bájt (along with its prefixed forms), but this spelling is not supported by most authoritative spelling dictionaries.

Declension

References

Further reading

• byte in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
• Questions of spelling while compiling the Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language (see page 5 in the PDF, page 55 in the original)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English byte.

Noun

byte m (invariable)

1. (computing) byte

   Synonym: bicarattere

Middle English

Verb

byte

1. Alternative form of biten

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• baite

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bajt(?)(i)/

Noun

byte m (plural bytes)

1. (computing) byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: B

Coordinate terms

• Multiples: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• bit

Slovak

Alternative forms

• bajt

Noun

byte m

1. byte

Further reading

• byte in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bait/, [?bai?t?]

Noun

byte m (plural bytes)

1. byte

Further reading

• “byte” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Related to byta (“to change, to exchange, to swap”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by?t?/

Noun

byte n

1. trading, exchange, change
2. catch, plunder, loot

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bajt/, /ba?t/

Noun

byte c

1. a byte (8 bits, in computers)

Declension

References

• byte in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English b?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. (chiefly Britain) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,

     In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]

   • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition):

     The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brey, Byer, Erby, yerb

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“son”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. child, son, descendant; young man, youth

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“hill, elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. mound

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favourable wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. strong wind, storm

Descendants

• Middle English: bir
  • English: birr

Etymology 4

From Proto-Germanic *burjaz (“opportunity”), related to Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. time, opportunity; occurrence

Derived terms

• ambyre (“favorable, fair”)

Etymology 5

Probably related to Old English b?r. Perhaps identical to the word for a farm or dwelling in German -büren, Dutch -buren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by?.re/

Noun

b?re n (nominative plural b?ru)

1. stall, shed, hut

Derived terms

• c?b?re m (“cow-byre, cow-shed”)

Descendants

• English: byre

Scots

Etymology

From Old English b?re, but possibly influenced in usage by Gaelic "bò" meaning a cow.

Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. A cattle shed or outhouse

Derived terms

• Byreman, cattleherd
• Byregraip, a dung fork.