parasita

parasita

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

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• Homophones: parasitas, parasitât

parasita

1. third-person singular past historic of parasiter

parasita

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

See parasītus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.raˈsiː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.raˈs̬iː.t̪a]

parasīta f (genitive parasītae, masculine parasītus); first declension

1. (female) parasite

First-declension noun.

• “parasita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parasita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parasita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

parasita

1. feminine singular of parasit

• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧si‧ta

From Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”).

parasita m or f by sense (plural parasitas)

1. parasite
2. (figuratively) leech

• parasitar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

parasita

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

• “parasita”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /paɾaˈsita/ [pa.ɾaˈsi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: pa‧ra‧si‧ta

parasita

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