different between cyte vs wyte

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kútos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sa?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??t/

Noun

cyte (plural cytes)

1. (biology, rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)
   • 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1:

Etymology 2

Noun

cyte (plural cytes)

1. Obsolete form of city. [13th—16th c.]

English

Verb

wyte (third-person singular simple present wytes, present participle wyting, simple past and past participle wyted)

1. Alternative form of wite

Noun

wyte

1. Alternative form of wite

Anagrams

• twey

Scots

Etymology

From Old English w?tan, from Proto-West Germanic *w?tan, from Proto-Germanic *w?tan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?it/

Verb

wyte (third-person singular present wytes, present participle wytin, past wytit, past participle wytit)

1. to blame
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.1: