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whit
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wi?t, wight, from Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), from Proto-Germanic *wiht? (“thing, creature”) or *wihtiz (“essence, object”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wek?- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Old High German wiht (“creature, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. Doublet of wight.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?t, hw?t, IPA(key): /w?t/, /??t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophone: wit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
whit (plural whits)
- The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
- 1602: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
- Not a whit.
- 1917, Incident by Countee Cullen
- Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'
- 1602: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
Synonyms
- (smallest part imaginable): bit, iota, jot, scrap
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Translations
Etymology 2
Preposition
whit
- Pronunciation spelling of with.
Anagrams
- with, with-
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hwit, white, whyte, whitt, whytt, whyt, whi?t, qwyght, ?wijt, wyghte, whiyt, whijt
Etymology
Old English hw?t, from Proto-Germanic *hw?taz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?t/
Adjective
whit (plural and weak singular white, comparative whitter, superlative whittest)
- white, pale, light (in color)
- (referring to people) wearing white clothes
- (referring to people) having white skin
- attractive, fair, beautiful
- bright, shining, brilliant
- (referring to plants) having white flowers
- (heraldry) silver, argent (tincture)
- (alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver
- (medicine) Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death
Related terms
- snow whit
Descendants
- English: white (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white
- Yola: whit
References
- “wh?t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Noun
whit
- white (colour)
- white pigment
- The white of an egg
- The white of an eye
- white fabric
- white wine
- dairy products
- Other objects notable for being white
Descendants
- English: white
- Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white
References
- “wh?t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??t]
Pronoun
whit
- Alternative form of what
References
- “what, pron., adv., adj., conj., interj..” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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modicum
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English modicum, borrowed from Latin modicum (“a little, a small amount”), a noun use of the neuter form of modicus (“moderate; restrained, temperate; reasonable”) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns). Modicus is derived from modus (“a measure; a bound, limit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
The plural form modica is derived from Latin modica.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?d?k?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?d?k?m/, /-d?-/
- Hyphenation: mod?i?cum
Noun
modicum (plural modicums or (rare) modica)
- A modest, small, or trifling amount.
- Synonyms: iota, jot, tittle; see also Thesaurus:modicum
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
Translations
References
Latin
Etymology
From modicus (“moderate, middling”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?mo.di.kum/, [?m?d??k???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?mo.di.kum/, [?m??d?ikum]
Noun
modicum n (genitive modic?); second declension
- a little, a small amount
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
- English: modicum
Adjective
modicum
- nominative neuter singular of modicus
- accusative masculine singular of modicus
- accusative neuter singular of modicus
- vocative neuter singular of modicus
References
- modicum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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