fita

Borrowed from Russian фита́ (fitá).

fita (plural fitas)

1. The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.

• fiat, IATF, Fiat, FIAT, Taif, Tafi, Fait, fait

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *[petra] fīcta, from Latin petra (“stone”) and figere (“to fix in place”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfi.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfi.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

fita f (plural fites)

1. milestone, boundary stone

   Synonym: molló

2. waypoint
3. (mathematics) bound

• fita inferior
• fita superior
• fitar

• fit

• “fita”, 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
• “fita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “fita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈfita] (Aosta)

fita (Valdôtain, Vaudois)

1. alternative form of féta (“party, celebration”)

• fête in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fĕsta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 482

• IPA^(key): /ˈfita/ [ˈfi.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: fi‧ta

Probably from Latin vitta (“ribbon”), although the required evolution, with Latin <vi> becoming /fi/, is irregular. Alternatively from Suevic, from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *fetjō, compare Old High German fizza (“thread, tissue”), Old Norse fitja (“to knit”).^[1] Compare also Italian fetta.

fita f (plural fitas)

1. band, ribbon
2. (sewing) wristband, girdle, hem
3. elongated plot of land

From Latin fictum (“fixed”).

fita

1. feminine singular of fito

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fita”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fita

1. romanization of 𐍆𐌹𐍄𐌰

• IPA^(key): /fì.táː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸɪ̀.táː]

fìtā f (possessed form fìtar̃)

1. graduation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪːta/

  Rhymes: -ɪːta

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

fita f (genitive singular fitu, nominative plural fitur)

1. fat
2. fatness

• fitusækinn
• offita (“obesity”)

fita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fitaði, supine fitað)

1. to fatten, make fat [with accusative]

   Bændurnir fita dýrin.

   The farmers fatten the animals.

• fitna

From Portuguese fita.

fita (plural fita-fita)

1. tape, ribbon, band

   fita di sapato ― shoelaces (literally, “shoe ribbon”)

2. film, movie

   Synonym: pintura

   fita-cinéma ― film

   olâ fita ― to see a movie, to go to the cinema

• fazê-fita (“to be duplicitous”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f

fita

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fit

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

fita f (genitive fitu)

1. fat, grease

• Icelandic: fita f
• >? Norwegian Nynorsk: fete m

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fita”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• Rhymes: -itɐ
• Hyphenation: fi‧ta

Uncertain. Likely from Latin vitta (“band, ribbon”).

fita f (plural fitas)

1. tape, ribbon, band
2. (colloquial) film, movie

   Synonyms: filme, película

3. (Brazil, video games, colloquial) cartridge

   Synonym: cartucho

4. (Portugal, education, slang) a colored ribbon to indicate membership of a faculty
5. (Portugal, colloquial) necktie

   Synonym: gravata

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

• Macanese: fita
• → Bengali: ফিতা (phita)
• → Hindi: फ़ीता (fītā)

From Latin ficta.

fita f (plural fitas)

1. act, deception, lie

   É tudo fita!

   It's all an act!

   Deixem-se de fitas!

   Stop pretending!

2. tantrum

   Fazer fita.

   To pull a tantrum.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

• meter fita

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fita”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “fita” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fita”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “fita”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “fita”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “fita”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fita”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

fita

1. genitive singular of fit ( = fish)

• IPA^(key): /ɸiˈ.t̪a/

fita

1. (stative) to be right, correct

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as fitá)