cit

• cit.

• IPA^(key): /sɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

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cit (plural cits)

1. (derogatory, now rare): 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, 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:

     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, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, 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[.]

• citess
• cittess

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cit (plural cits)

1. citation

• Oxford English Dictionary

• CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

Deverbal from cítit.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪt]

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cit m inan (relational adjective citový)

1. feeling

   získat cit pro ― to get a feel for

   chovat cit ― to have affection

2. emotion

   Synonym: emoce

• “cit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “cit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “cit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cit m (plural cits)

1. cider

cit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ciō

ċīt

1. second-person singular present indicative of ċīdan

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

cit

1. synonym of citet

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /kʲid/

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”).

cit

1. root of cintayati

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕit˥/
• Tone numbers: cit⁷
• Hyphenation: cit

From Proto-Tai *cɯːtᴰ (“insipid”). Cognate with Thai จืด (jʉ̀ʉt), Lao ຈືດ (chư̄t), Shan ၸိုတ်ႇ (tsùet).

cit (Sawndip forms 𰝘 or 𭶈 or 泏 or 㲺 or 咄 or 𠮟 or ⿰米直 or ⿰淡出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)

1. bland; insipid

   Synonyms: (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) cuet, (dialectal) ciu

2. having poor appetite
3. cold; emotionally distant

   Synonyms: (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) cuet

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Cognate with Thai จุด?”)

cit (Sawndip forms 炪 or 𤊧 or 咄 or 𰞩 or 𭵎 or ⿺燒出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)

1. to ignite; to light; to start (a fire)

   Synonyms: diemj, (dialectal) gyot, (dialectal) lej

2. to smoke (a cigarette)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) gwn, (dialectal) cup, (dialectal) ndoet, (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) boep, (dialectal) coemh

   cit ien

   to smoke cigarettes

3. to treat with moxibustion

   Synonyms: (dialectal) huj, (dialectal) ndut, (dialectal) ndat, (dialectal) gyot, (dialectal) nat

From Chinese 齣.

cit (1957–1982 spelling cit)

1. Used for performances, e.g., plays, operas, storytellings.