cit

cit

See also: cit., ciť, and č̓it

English

Alternative forms

• cit.

Etymology

Shortening

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

cit (plural cits)

1. (derogatory, now rare) Clipping of citizen: a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees

     […] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being.

   • 1760 January 28 (first performance), [Samuel] Foote, The Minor, a Comedy. […], London: […] J. Coote, […]; G[eorge] Kearsly, […]; T[homas] Davies, […], published 1760, OCLC 1154845398, Act II, page 56:

     Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.

   • 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza

     Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.

   • 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, OCLC 925129:

     If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 154:

     As a new-comer in the township, as a cit, and a devotee to beer, Cummings was an excuse to keep an eye on Millie[.]

2. Clipping of citation.

Derived terms

• citess
• cittess

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

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Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from cítit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪt]

Noun

cit m inan

1. feeling

   získatcit pro ― to get a feel for

   chovatcit ― to have affection

2. emotion

   Synonym: emoce

Declension

Declension of cit

	singular	plural
nominative	cit	city
genitive	citu	citů
dative	citu	citům
accusative	cit	city
vocative	cite	city
locative	citu	citech
instrumental	citem	city

Derived terms

• bezcitný m
• citový

Related terms

• cítit

Further reading

• cit in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• cit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• cit in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Esperanto

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Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

cit m (plural cits)

1. cider

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Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃit/, /t͡ɕit/

Adjective

cit

1. little, small

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

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Latin

Verb

cit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ciō

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin cīvitās via the nominative singular. Compare citet, from the Latin accusative cīvitātem.

Noun

cit

1. Synonym of citet

References

Van Emdem, Wolfgang G. 2000. Medieval French representations of city and other walls. In Tracy, James (ed.), City walls: The urban enceinte in global perspective, 540. Cambridge University Press.

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Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +‎ bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲid/

Verb

cit

1. though… (they) are (subjunctive)
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207^b11

     Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn.

     Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cit	chit	cit pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀘𑀺𑀢𑁆 (Brahmi script)
• चित् (Devanagari script)
• চিত্ (Bengali script)
• චිත් (Sinhalese script)
• စိတ် or ၸိတ် (Burmese script)
• จิตฺ or จิต (Thai script)
• ᨧᩥᨲ᩺ (Tai Tham script)
• ຈິຕ຺ or ຈິຕ (Lao script)
• ចិត៑ (Khmer script)
• 𑄌𑄨𑄖𑄴 (Chakma script)

Verb

cit

1. root of cintayati