acudit
Catalan
Etymology
From acudir.
Pronunciation
Noun
acudit m (plural acudits)
- witticism (a witty remark)
- 2020 September 21, David Miró, “Quantes notícies caben en un diari?”, in Ara[1]:
- Hi ha un vell acudit del New York Times on un home amb el diari desplegat li diu a un altre: “Te n’has adonat que cada dia passen les notícies justes per omplir un diari?”
- There's an old witticism from the New York Times where a man with an unfolded newspaper tells another, "Have you realized that every day the news happens just to fill a newspaper?"
- joke told as a short story
Participle
acudit (feminine acudida, masculine plural acudits, feminine plural acudides)
- past participle of acudir
Further reading
- “acudit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “acudit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “acudit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “acudit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.