different between recit vs recite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French récit.

Noun

recit (plural recits)

1. A short story.
   • 2002, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, Cultural Encounters:

     […] of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French recit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four recits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost.

2. A narration.
3. (music) A recitative.

Anagrams

• Trice, citer, recti, recti-, retic, trice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French reciter, from Latin recitare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sa?t/

Verb

recite (third-person singular simple present recites, present participle reciting, simple past and past participle recited)

1. (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
2. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
3. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

Synonyms

• (repeat aloud): declaim, go through, spout
• (list or enumerate something): tabulate; see also Thesaurus:tick off

Related terms

• recit
• recitation

Translations

Anagrams

• cerite, receit, tierce, tiercé

Italian

Noun

recite f

1. plural of recita

Portuguese

Verb

recite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of recitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of recitar
3. third-person singular imperative of recitar

Spanish

Verb

recite

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of recitar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recitar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recitar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of recitar.