different between sopite vs spite

English

Etymology

Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire (“to put to sleep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pa?t/

Verb

sopite (third-person singular simple present sopites, present participle sopiting, simple past and past participle sopited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put to sleep; to quiet.
   • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since,

     ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.

   • The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.

Derived terms

• sopite syndrome

Anagrams

• postie

Italian

Verb

sopite

1. second-person plural present indicative of sopire
2. second-person plural imperative of sopire
3. plural of sopito

Anagrams

• ospite

Latin

Participle

s?p?te

1. vocative masculine singular of s?p?tus

English

Alternative forms

• spight (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?t, IPA^(key): /spa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from Latin d?spici? (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt.

Noun

spite (usually uncountable, plural spites)

1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice

   Synonyms: grudge, rancor.

   He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.

   They did it just for spite.

   • 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil

     sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.

   • Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Translations

Verb

spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)

1. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

   She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

   • The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.

3. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Related terms

• spiteful
• in spite of
• despite

Translations

See also

• malignant
• malicious

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

spite

1. Notwithstanding; despite.

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe

Esperanto

Etymology

From English spite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi.te/

Adverb

spite

1. in spite of
2. defiantly

Usage notes

Often used with the accusative or with the preposition al.

Derived terms

• spit
• spiti

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?i.t?/

Adjective

spite

1. inflection of spity:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural