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English

Etymology

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), from Old Saxon *spl?tan, both intensive forms related to Proto-West Germanic *spl?tan, from Proto-Germanic *spl?tan? (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech p?l (“half”), Old Church Slavonic ???-??????? (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: spl?t, IPA^(key): /spl?t/

Adjective

split (not comparable)

1. Divided.

   Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
2. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
3. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
4. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
5. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.

   10+³?₁₆ is a split quotation.

6. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

split (plural splits)

1. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
6. (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targetted in a microcycle.

   Hyponym: bro split

7. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.

   He’s got a nasty split.

8. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
9. A split shot or split stroke.
10. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
11. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹?₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹?₂ of a fifth.
12. A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
13. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.

    In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32

14. (video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
15. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
16. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
17. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

split (third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split)

1. (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

   Synonym: cleave

   • 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects

     a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
2. (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
3. (transitive) To share; to divide.
4. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave

5. (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.

   Synonyms: break up, split up

6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.

   Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.

7. (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
   • 2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103,

     In the first case ${\displaystyle X^{2}-2}$, the minimum polynomial of ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$, splits completely over ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {2}})}$; in the second case we see that ${\displaystyle X^{3}-2}$, the minimum polynomial of ${\displaystyle 3{\sqrt {2}}}$, does not split completely over ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} (3{\sqrt {2}})}$.

8. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
9. (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
10. (intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.

    • " […] I split, and tell all […] "

11. (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.

12. (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• slipt, spilt, stilp

Danish

Verb

split

1. imperative of splitte

Spanish

Etymology

From English splits.

Noun

split m (uncountable)

1. splits

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish split, borrowed from Middle Low German spliten (“to split”)

Noun

split n or c

1. discord, strife, dissension

   Det blir avunden och splitet, som blir Sveriges fördärv.

   It is the envy and the strife, that will be Sweden's demise.

2. a split (of shares in a company)
3. a side split, a straddle split (in gymnastics)

Declension

See also

• aktiesplit
• spagat
• splits
• splitt

Anagrams

• pilts

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?t/, [p???t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”).

Noun

pit (plural pits)

1. A hole in the ground.

2. (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

3. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
4. A mine.
5. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
6. (trading) A trading pit.
7. The bottom part of something.

8. (colloquial) Armpit.
9. (aviation) A luggage hold.
10. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
11. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
12. The grave, or underworld.
    • 1611, Bible, Job xxxiii. 18 (KJV).

      He keepeth back his soul from the pit.

13. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

    • as fiercely as two game-cocks in the pit

15. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
16. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
17. (slang) A pit bull terrier.

    I'm taking one of my pits to the vet on Thursday.

18. (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.

19. (slang) A mosh pit.

20. (law enforcement, usually used with "maneuver") A maneuver by which a police officer, by use of a police car, nudges the vehicle of a fleeing suspect enough for the suspect's vehicle to lose control and become disabled so the police officer can catch and apprehend the suspect.
21. (military) The fissile core of a nuclear weapon, commonly made of uranium or plutonium surrounded by high-explosive lenses.
22. (hospital slang) The emergency department.

Synonyms

• (pit bull terrier): pibble (informal), pit bull, pittie (informal), shitbull (pejorative), velvet hippo (slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pitting, simple past and past participle pitted)

1. (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.

   Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.

2. (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
3. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.

   Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?

   • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.

   • 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters

     That movement, pitted against a Bangkok-centered royalist and pro-military elite, has been at the heart of years of turmoil.

   • 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera

     Thaksin's ouster triggered years of upheaval and division that has pitted a poor, rural majority in the north that supports the Shinawatras against royalists, the military and their urban backers.

4. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþ?. Compare pith.

Noun

pit (plural pits)

1. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
2. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
3. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.

Translations

Verb

pit (third-person singular simple present pits, present participle pitting, simple past and past participle pitted)

1. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

Translations

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

pit (plural pits)

1. (informal) A pit bull terrier.

Translations

Further reading

• pit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ITP, PTI, TIP, TPI, tip, tpi

Cahuilla

Noun

pít

1. road, path, way

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, from Proto-Indo-European *peg (“breast”). Compare Italian petto, Portuguese peito, Romanian piept, Spanish pecho.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pit/
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

pit m (plural pits)

1. breast

   Synonym: mamella

2. (castells) force to support the castell, provided by the castellers in the pinya by pressing their chest onto the back of the casteller in front of them

Related terms

• apitrar
• espitregar

Further reading

• “pit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t]

Verb

pit

1. masculine singular passive participle of pít

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pit
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pit. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

pit m or f (plural pitten, diminutive pitje n)

1. A seed inside a fruit.
2. wick (of a candle, lamp or other implement)

   Synonyms: lemmet, lont, wiek

3. burner (on a stove)
4. spirit, vigour

Derived terms

• gaspit
• kaarsenpit
• lampenpit
• pittig

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pit.

Noun

pit m (plural pits)

1. (racing) pit (refueling station and garage at a race track)

Derived terms

• pitpoes
• pitstop
• pitstraat

Anagrams

• tip

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish pit (“pit, hollow; female pudenda”), possibly related to putte (“pit, hollow”), Latin puteus.

Noun

pit f (genitive singular pite, nominative plural piteanna)

1. (anatomy) vulva
2. shell-less crab

Declension

Derived terms

• piteog f, piteachán m, piteán m (“effeminate man, sissy”)

Related terms

• faighin (“vagina”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "pit" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “pit, (put)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “vulva” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “pit” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Javanese

Etymology

From Dutch fiets (“bicycle”)

Noun

pit

1. bicycle

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?it/

Verb

pit

1. supine of pi?

Min Nan

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?it/

Noun

pit f

1. genitive plural of pita

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/

Verb

pit (third-person singular present pits, present participle pittin, past pit, past participle pit)

1. to put

Synonyms

• putt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish pit (“pit, hollow; female pudenda”), possibly related to putte (“pit, hollow”), Latin puteus.

Noun

pit f (genitive singular pite, plural pitean)

1. female external genitalia, vulva
2. (vulgar) cunt, pussy

References

• “pit” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “pit, (put)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Tocharian B

Noun

pit

1. gall, bile

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pit, variant of put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Noun

pit m

1. pit
2. well

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?ì?t]

  Rhymes: -ì?t

  Homophone: Pijt

Verb

pit

1. squeak, beep

Yola

Verb

pit

1. Alternative form of pidh