dite

dite

See also: ditë, díte, dítě, and dîte

English

Etymology 1

See dight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪt

Verb

dite (third-person singular simple present dites, present participle diting, simple past and past participle dited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 18:

     His hideous club aloft he dites.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Etymology 2

Variant of doit.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪt/

Noun

dite (plural dites)

1. (US, New England) A trifling quantity or amount.

   A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.

   • 2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95:

     Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”

   • 1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     “Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”

References

1. “dite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• -tide, DIET, Diet, diet, diët, edit, edit., tide, tied

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dit/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Participle

dite f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of dire

Further reading

• “dite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• édit

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Galician

Verb

dite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ditar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of ditar

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Italian

Verb

dite

1. inflection of dire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• tedi

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Malagasy

Etymology

From French du thé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dite/

Noun

dite

1. tea

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French thé.

Noun

dite

1. tea

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

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Portuguese

Verb

dite

1. inflection of ditar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French thé.

Noun

dite

1. tea

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

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Spanish

Verb

dite

1. second-person singular imperative of decir combined with te