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English

Etymology

Shortened from citizen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

cit (plural cits)

1. (derogatory, now rare) A citizen; a townsman, city dweller.
   • 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.

   • 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, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     “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?”

Derived terms

• citess, cittess

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t]

Noun

cit m

1. feeling
2. emotion

   Synonym: emoce

Declension

Derived terms

• bezcitný m
• citový

Related terms

• cítit

Further reading

• cit in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• cit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

cit m (plural cits)

1. cider

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??it/, /t??it/

Adjective

cit

1. little, small

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Verb

cit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ci?

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?id/

Etymology

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

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

Mutation

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

cit

1. root of cintayati

English

Noun

cwt (plural cwt)

1. Alternative spelling of cwt. (“hundredweight”)

Anagrams

• WTC