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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.
whit From the web:
- what white wine is good for cooking
- what whitens teeth
- what white wine is dry
- what white wine is sweet
- what white roses mean
- what white goes with agreeable gray
- what white sneakers are in style 2021
- what white nonsense is this
mote
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /mo?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- Homophone: moat
Etymology 1
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), but of uncertain ultimate origin. Sometimes linked to Spanish mota (“speck”) and English mud..
Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- A small particle; a speck.
- Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
- a. 1729, Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you":
- What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
- An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
Translations
See also
- floater
Etymology 2
From Middle English moten, from Old English m?tan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, may, must”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tan? (“to be able to, have to, be delegated”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, be in charge of”). Cognate with Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”), German müssen (“to have to, must”), Danish måtte (“might, may”), Ancient Greek ???? (méd?, “to prevail, dominate, rule over”). Related to empty.
Verb
mote (third-person singular simple present mote, no present participle, simple past and past participle must)
- (archaic) May or might. [from 9th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- (obsolete) Must. [9th-17th c.]
- (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may. [from 9th c.]
- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
- ‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
Usage notes
- Generally takes an infinitive without to.
Etymology 3
See moot (“a meeting”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
- a wardmote in the city of London
- (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
- a folk mote
- (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
Derived terms
- folk-mote
- mote bell
- shire-mote
Etymology 4
From remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
References
Anagrams
- -tome, Tome, tome
Inari Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *mo??.
Noun
mote
- mud
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Italian
Noun
mote f pl
- plural of mota
Anagrams
- temo
Japanese
Romanization
mote
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Participle
m?te
- vocative masculine singular of m?tus
Middle English
Verb
mote
- inflection of moten (“to have to”):
- present subjunctive singular
- present indicative/subjunctive plural
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French mode
Noun
mote m (definite singular moten, indefinite plural moter, definite plural motene)
- fashion
Derived terms
- motebevisst
- motehus
- moteshow
- moteverden
References
- “mote” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French mode
Noun
mote m (definite singular moten, indefinite plural motar, definite plural motane)
- fashion
Derived terms
- motebevisst
- motehus
- moteshow
- motemedveten, motemedviten
References
- “mote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Provençal or French mot (“word”); see also Italian motto (“word”).
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- motto
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mote/, [?mo.t?e]
Etymology 1
From French mot (“word, saying”) or Occitan mot.
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- nickname
- motto (heraldry)
Related terms
- motejar
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Quechua mut'i.
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- (South America) hulled cereal, especially pearl barley and hominy
Derived terms
- mote de maíz
- mote de trigo
Further reading
- “mote” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Volapük
Noun
mote
- dative singular of mot
mote From the web:
- what motel
- what motels are pet friendly
- what motel am i at
- what motels have monthly rates
- what motels are near me
- what motels take cash
- what motels have weekly rates
- what hotels allow pets
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