pito

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pito (uncountable)

1. A type of beer made from fermented millet or sorghum in parts of West Africa.

Borrowed from Spanish pito (“penis”).

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pito (plural pitos)

1. (slang) penis.

   A coward with no pito.

• Piot, Poti, piot, topi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pito

1. seven

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pitó

1. seven

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pitô

1. seven

Amis cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : pito     Ordinal : sakapapito

From Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pito

1. seven

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pitó

1. seven

Bikol Central numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pito, siyete     Ordinal: ikapito

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

• IPA^(key): /piˈto/ [piˈto]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pitó (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. seven

   Synonym: siyete

Borrowed from Spanish pito.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.to]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

píto (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. a whistle

Cebuano numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pitó     Spanish cardinal: siyete     Ordinal: ikapitó     Adverbial: makapitó     Distributive: pito-píto, tagpíto     Fractional: sikapitó

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu. Cognate with Tagalog pito, Hiligaynon pito, Aklanon pitó, Ilocano pito. Related to Indonesian pitu, Malay pitu, Fijian vitu, Hawaiian hiku, Maori whitu, Rotuman hifu, Tongan fitu.

• IPA^(key): /piˈto/ [pɪˈt̪o]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pitó (Badlit spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. seven; 7

   Synonym: siyete or site

   Pito ka buok ang namatay sa disgrasya. ― Seven died in the accident.

• Like any other numerals, it is often used with the linker "ka" to quantify an object/object that it modifies.

  Pito ka itlog ― Seven eggs

  Pito ka saging ― Seven bananas

• The word buok (“piece; whole”) is sometimes used after ka.

  Pito ka buok itlog ― Seven eggs

  Pito ka buok saging ― Seven bananas

Borrowed from Spanish pito (“whistle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

píto (Badlit spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. a whistle
2. the sound of a whistle

   Synonym: taghoy

píto (Badlit spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. to blow a whistle
2. to make a whistling sound

   Synonyms: taghoy, tihol

Inherited from Spanish pito (“whistle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpi.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. whistle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pito

1. seven

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪto]

pito

1. neuter singular passive participle of pít

From Proto-Finnic *pito, equivalent to pitää (“to keep”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpit̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧to

pito

1. keeping, upkeep
2. spending (a vacation)
3. traction, grip (the ability to exert lateral force on a surface without slipping, as of a tyre or shoe on the ground)
4. hold (as in a phone call kept on hold)

• pitää
• pidot

• “pito”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Topi, opit, poti, topi

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

Attested since 1348. Onomatopoeic.^[1]

pito m (plural pitos)

1. chick

   Synonyms: polo, pitiño

   • 1348, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia, editor, História do galego-português, Coimbra: I.N.I.C, page 159:

     ſſete ouellas τ dous años τ ſſete cabras τ quatro cabritos τ duas porcas τ mea doutra τ hũa porcalla con ſſeus fillos τ dose patas τ treσe gallinas cõ quatorze pĩtoos

     seven sheep and two lambs and seven goats and four kids and two sows and a half and a sow with her sons and twelve ducks and thirteen hens with fourteen chicks

• pita

Onomatopoeic.^[2]

pito m (plural pitos)

1. whistle (instrument)

   Synonyms: asubío, chifre, subiote

2. (colloquial) cigarette
   • 1891, José Barral Campos, O amigo de S. Pedro:

     Dimpois de comer dúas cuncas de caldo, deitouse na cama, sacou da faltrica do chaleque dous cigarros e unha navalla e liando un pito, púxose a fumegar polas ventas das narices, o mesmo có tren.

     After eating two bowls of broth he laid down on the bed; he took two cigars and a pocket knife from the vest's pocket and, rolling a cigarette, began to throw smoke by the nostrils, not unlike a train

3. (childish, colloquial) penis

   Synonyms: carallo, gaita, pirola

4. runny nose

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pito

1. first-person singular present indicative of pitar

• “pito”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pito”, 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), “pito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French plutôt (“rather”).

• IPA^(key): /pito/

pito

1. rather

From Spanish.

pito

1. whistle

Akin to Cebuano pito.

pito

1. seven

Hiligaynon numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pito     Ordinal: ikapito

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

• IPA^(key): /piˈto/ [piˈto]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pitó

1. seven

Borrowed from Spanish pito.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.to]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. whistle; pipe (musical instrument)
2. catcall

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pito

1. seven

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.to]
• Hyphenation: pi‧tó

pitó

1. seven

   Synonym: siete

Borrowed from Spanish pito.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.to]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. whistle

From Proto-Finnic *pito, equivalent to pittää (“to keep”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish pito and Estonian pidu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpito̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpid̥o̞]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. keeping, herding
2. (in the plural) traditional feast, banquet

Declension of pito (type 4/koivu, t- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	pito	piot
genitive	pion	pittoin, pitoloin
partitive	pittoa	pitoja, pitoloja
illative	pittoo	pittoi, pitoloihe
inessive	pios	piois, pitolois
elative	piost	pioist, pitoloist
allative	piolle	pioille, pitoloille
adessive	piol	pioil, pitoloil
ablative	piolt	pioilt, pitoloilt
translative	pioks	pioiks, pitoloiks
essive	pitonna, pittoon	pitoinna, pitoloinna, pittoin, pitoloin
exessive1)	pitont	pitoint, pitoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 406

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pitó

1. seven

Kinaray-a cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : pito     Ordinal : ikapito

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

• IPA^(key): /piˈto/, [piˈto]

pitó

1. seven

Borrowed from Spanish pito.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpi.to]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. whistle; pipe (musical instrument)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu.

pito

1. seven

From Proto-Polynesian *pito (cognate with Rarotongan pito, Tahitian pito, Tongan pito and Samoan pito),^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *bʷito^[2][3]

pito

1. navel
2. end, extremity
3. (physics, geography) pole

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pito”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 330
• “pito” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Maranao numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pito

pito

1. seven

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pitó

1. seven

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: pi‧to
• Homophone: Pito

pito

1. impersonal past of pić

pito f

1. vocative singular of pita

• Rhymes: -itu
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

From pinto.^[1][2]

pito m (plural pitos)

1. (colloquial) chick (young chicken)

   Synonyms: pinto, franguinho

2. (vulgar) vagina
   • 1927, João da Silva Correia, O eufemismo e o disfemismo na língua e na literatura portuguesa‎^[3]:

     […] ao feminino chama-se ordinariamente a vulva, a vagina, a pássara, a passarola, o pardejo, a pinta, o pito, a rata, a nódos, a pachacha, o vespeiro, a coisa, a xarifa, o pechincho.

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Deverbal from pitar.^[1]

pito m (plural pitos)

1. (South Brazil, colloquial) cigarette

   Synonym: cigarro

Unknown. Compare Spanish pito.

pito m (plural pitos)

1. archaic form of apito

pito

1. first-person singular present indicative of pitar

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pito

1. navel
2. (by exension) center

   Te pito o te henua

   The center of the world

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpi.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: pi‧to

Alteration of pico.

pito m (plural pitos)

1. whistle

   Synonyms: silbato, chifle

2. fife
3. catcall
4. woodpecker

   Synonym: pájaro carpintero

5. (slang) cigarette, especially marijuana cigarette
6. (slang) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

7. (Rioplatense, Bolivia, Chile) tobacco pipe
8. (Central America) coffee bean

• Chavacano: pito
• → Cebuano: pito
• → Hiligaynon: pito
• → Tagalog: pito
• → Tausug: pītu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pito

1. first-person singular present indicative of pitar

• “pito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Surigaonon cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : pito     Ordinal : ikapito

From Proto-Bisayan *pitu, from Proto-Central Philippine *pitu, from Proto-Philippine *pitu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu. Cognate with Cebuano pito and Tausug pitu.

pito

1. seven

Tagalog numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pito     Spanish cardinal: siyete     Ordinal: ikapito, pampito     Ordinal abbreviation: ika-7, pang-7     Adverbial: makapito     Multiplier: pitong ibayo     Distributive: tigpito, pituhan, pito-pito     Restrictive: pipito     Fractional: kapito, sangkapito, ikapito, saikapito
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 7

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /piˈto/ [pɪˈt̪o]

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• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: pi‧to

pitó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. seven

   Synonym: siyete

• To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with -ng enclitic suffix when the word ends with a vowel, and a separate preposition, na, for a consonant.

  Isang saging, dalawang pinya

  One banana, two pineapples

  Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga

  Four apples, six mangos

Borrowed from Spanish pito, alteration of pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpito/ [ˈpiː.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: pi‧to

pito (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆᜓ)

1. whistle (device):

   Synonym: silbato

2. whistle (sound):

   Synonym: sipol

• ipot, tipo

From Proto-Finnic *pito.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpʲito]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. feast, banquet

Declension of pito (type II/võrkko, t- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	pito	piod
genitive	pio	pitojõ, pitoi
partitive	pittoa	pitoitõ, pitoi
illative	pittosõ, pitto	pitoisõ
inessive	pioz	pitoiz
elative	piossõ	pitoissõ
allative	piolõ	pitoilõ
adessive	piollõ	pitoillõ
ablative	pioltõ	pitoiltõ
translative	piossi	pitoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pito”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

• IPA^(key): /piˈto/, [piˈtu]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

Waray-Waray numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pito     Ordinal: ikapito

pitó

1. seven

From Spanish pito.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpito/, [ˈpi.tu]
• Hyphenation: pi‧to

pito

1. whistle

pito

1. to blow a whistle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitu, from Proto-Austronesian *pitu.

pito

1. seven