fitt
English
Noun
fitt (plural fitts)
- Alternative form of fit (section of a poem or ballad)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fitt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Tift, tift
Old English
Alternative forms
- fit
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fitjō (“foot, seam”) and *fitī (“section, segment, chapter”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pedio-. Cognate with Old Saxon fittea, attested in the borrowed Latin vittea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfitː/
Noun
fitt f
- song
- conflict
Declension
Declension of fitt (strong ō-stem)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fitt | fitta, fitte |
| accusative | fitte | fitta, fitte |
| genitive | fitte | fitta |
| dative | fitte | fittum |
Descendants
- Middle English: fitt, fit
- English: fit
- Scots: fit