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mite
English
Etymology
From Middle English mite, from Old English m?te (“mite, tiny insect”), from Proto-Germanic *m?t? (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitan? (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) or *mai- (“to cut”). Akin to Old High German m?za (“mite”), Middle Dutch m?te (“moth, mite”), Dutch mijt (“moth, mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: m?t, IPA(key): /ma?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophone: might
Noun
mite (plural mites)
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
- One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
- Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
- 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
- A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle
- (colloquial, often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal
- 2014, Lorraine F Elli, The Little Town Mouse
- “Tom told me that, but twasn't your fault, the little mite just couldn't wait to be born that's all.” A small smile played on Leah's lips
- 2014, Lorraine F Elli, The Little Town Mouse
Synonyms
- (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mite
- Eye dialect spelling of might.
Anagrams
- -time, METI, emit, it me, item, time
Au
Noun
mite
- woman
References
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin mythos
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?mi.t?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?mi.te/
Noun
mite m (plural mites)
- myth
Related terms
- mític
- mitologia
Further reading
- “mite” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French mitte (“kind of insect which gnaws on cloth or cheese”), from Middle Dutch m?te (“moth, mite”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *m?t? (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitan? (“to cut”).
Akin to Old English m?te (“mite, tiny insect”), Old High German m?za (“mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mit/
Noun
mite f (plural mites)
- mite (arachnid)
- moth, particularly one whose larva destroys something stored by humans
Derived terms
- antimite
Related terms
- chenille f
- papillon m
- teigne f (“clothes moth”)
- pyrale f (“meal moth”)
Verb
mite
- first-person singular present indicative of miter
- third-person singular present indicative of miter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of miter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of miter
- second-person singular imperative of miter
Further reading
- “mite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- émit, émît
Italian
Etymology
From Latin m?tis (“mild, mature”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi.te/
Adjective
mite (plural miti)
- mild
- moderate (price)
- balmy, mild (climate)
- meek (animal)
Anagrams
- temi
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?mi?.te/, [?mi?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?mi.te/, [?mi?t??]
Adjective
m?te
- nominative neuter singular of m?tis
- accusative neuter singular of m?tis
- vocative neuter singular of m?tis
References
- mite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norman
Etymology
From Old French mitte (“kind of insect which gnaws on cloth or cheese”), from Middle Dutch m?te (“moth, mite”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *m?t? (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”).
Noun
mite f (plural mites)
- (Jersey) mite
Volapük
Noun
mite
- dative singular of mit
mite From the web:
- what mites
- what mites bite humans
- what miter saw to buy
- what mites look like
- what mites live on humans
- what miter saw blade to use
- what mites are red
- what mites live in human hair
dot
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: d?t, IPA(key): /d?t/
- (US) enPR: dät, IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English *dot, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- A small, round spot.
- a dot of colour
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (obsolete) A lump or clot.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- a dot of a child
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
Synonyms
- (small spot): speck, spot
- (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation): full stop (British), period (US), point
- (as a diacritic): tittle (over the letters i and j)
- (mathematics, in a decimal): decimal point
- (in Morse code): dit
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
dot (third-person singular simple present dots, present participle dotting, simple past and past participle dotted)
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- Dot your is and cross your ts.
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- to dot a line
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- to dot a landscape with cottages
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
Synonyms
- stipple
Derived terms
Preposition
dot
- Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
- The work is equal to F dot ?x.
Coordinate terms
- cross
- ·
Translations
Etymology 2
From French dot.
Alternative forms
- dote
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
- "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
- "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."
- 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:
- As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
Related terms
- dotal
- dotation
Anagrams
- DTO, ODT, OTD, TOD, Tod, tod
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *dh?tim, accusative of Proto-Indo-European *dh? (“to put”). Alternatively it might represent a univerbation of do +? të.
Verb
dot
- "Can't" in negative sentences and "can" in interrogative ones. Can be added in sentences with mund to add emphasis.
Related terms
- do
- të
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin d?te
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot m (plural dots)
- dowry
- gift, talent
Synonyms
- (gift): do
Further reading
- “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Hyphenation: dot
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)
- a tuft, a bunch, a clump
- (informal) a lot, a large amount
- een dot geld - a lot of money
- cutie, something small and adorable
- darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
- a swab
Synonyms
- (cutie): kleintje
- (darling): schatje, liefje
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dos. Doublet of dose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot f (plural dots)
- dowry, marriage portion
Derived terms
- coureur de dot
Further reading
- “dot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Alternative forms
- dod
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???t??/
Contraction
dot (triggers lenition)
- (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).
Related terms
Klamath-Modoc
Alternative forms
- tút (Gatschet)
Noun
dot
- tooth
References
- Barker, M. A. R. (1963). Klamath Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 31. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Gatschet, Samuel S. (1890). The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon. Volume II, Part II. United States Government Printing Office.
Latvian
Etymology
From earlier *duoti, *duotie, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *d??tei, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti (“to give”). The present tense forms are new formations, replacing the old athematic forms (still attested in dialectal forms like domu (“I give”) instead of dodu). The past tense forms are from earlier *davu (cf. Lithuanian davia?); the e was extended from the past active participle form devis (< *devens < *de-d-wens).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [duôt]
Verb
dot (tr., no conj., pres. dodu, dod, dod, past devu)
- to give (to hand to someone, so that s/he can have it)
- to give, to provide (to allow the use of a material object, to free a place for someone else's use)
- (colloquial) to give in marriage
- (colloquial) to allow (e.g., a son or daughter) to work, to be employed
- to give, to grant, to procure, to secure (a state, circumstances)
- to give, to dedicate, to donate, to provide (at birth)
- (dated sense) to allow, to permit
- to give (to express orally or in writing)
- to give (to add to a text)
- (mathematics, usually in the past passive participle form dots) to be given, to be known from the start
- (of physical or mental states) to give (to create, to inspire, to generate)
- (of results, effects) to give, to provide, to be the cause (of something)
- (of material objects, values; also of spiritual or cultural values) to give, to produce, to create
- (colloquial) to give, to pay
- (colloquial, a person's age, by sight) to give, to estimate as
- (colloquial) to hit
- (colloquial) to shoot, to give a shot
Conjugation
Derived terms
- prefixed verbs:
- other derived terms:
- dev?js
- devums
- doties
References
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do?t/
Verb
dot
- inflection of doen:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Malay
Noun
dot (plural dot-dot, informal 1st possessive dotku, impolite 2nd possessive dotmu, 3rd possessive dotnya)
- nipple, teat
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *dugd? (compare Persian ????? (do?tar), ???? (do?t), Pashto ???? (lur), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (dug?dar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *d?ug?d?? (compare Sanskrit ?????? (duhit?), from *d?u??itr-), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ugh?t?r (compare Armenian ?????? (dustr), Greek ???????? (thygatéra), Lithuanian dukt?, Russian ???? (do??), English daughter).
Noun
dot f
- daughter
Related terms
- dotmam
- keç
- pis
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *totë.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?to?h(t)/
Determiner
d?t
- yonder, that way over there (very far from speaker and listener)
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Adjective
d?t
- dead
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- d?do
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dôot
- Dutch: dood
- Afrikaans: dood
- Limburgish: doead
- Dutch: dood
Further reading
- “d?t”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Swedish död, Icelandic dauður.
Adjective
dot
- dead
Volapük
Noun
dot (nominative plural dots)
- doubt
Declension
dot From the web:
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- what doth the lord require of thee
- what dot means
- what doth it profit a man
- what doterra oils are bad for dogs
- what dot stand for
- what doth it profit a man kjv
- what doterra oil is good for allergies
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