different between obit vs omit

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from ob?re (“to go down, to die”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??b?t/, /???b?t/

Noun

obit (plural obits)

1. (archaic) Death of a person. [14th-17th c.]
2. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:

     Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.

3. A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]

Etymology 2

Shortened from obituary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???b?t/, /??b?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

obit (plural obits)

1. (colloquial) An obituary.

Anagrams

• B. I. O. T., biot

French

Etymology

Latin obitus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.bit/

Noun

obit m (plural obits)

1. (archaic) death

Related terms

• obituaire

Further reading

• “obit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

obit

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

English

Etymology

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittere, present active infinitive of omitt? (“to let go”), from ob- + mitt? (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

omit (third-person singular simple present omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)

1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
2. (transitive) To fail to perform.
3. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

Synonyms

• (leave out or exclude): leave off, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit
• (fail to perform):
• (take no notice of): disregard, ignore, pass, turn a blind eye

Related terms

• omission
• mission
• elide

Translations

Anagrams

• Mito, mito, mito-

Finnish

Verb

omit

1. Second-person singular indicative present form of omia.
2. Second-person singular indicative past form of omia.

Anagrams

• Timo, Tomi, moti, toim, toim., tomi

French

Verb

omit

1. third-person singular past historic of omettre