• IPA^(key):/kɪt/

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• Rhymes:-ɪt

FromMiddle Englishkyt,kytt,kytte, fromMiddle Dutchkitte(“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related toDutchkit(“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps fromProto-Germanic*kitjō-,*kut-, which would be related to the root ofDutchkot(“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.^[1]

The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.

kit (countable anduncountable,pluralkits)

1. A circular wooden vessel, made of hoopedstaves.
2. A kind ofbasket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
   • 1961 18 Jan,Guardian (cited after OED):

     He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminiumkits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.

3. A collection of items forming theequipment of a soldier, carried in aknapsack.
   • 1995,HAL Laboratory,EarthBound,Nintendo,Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     Dudes! You simply have too much stuff in yourkit! But don't sweat it, I can buy some stuff you don't need.

4. Any collection of items needed for aspecificpurpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.

   Always carry a good first-aidkit.

5. A collection of parts sold for the buyer toassemble.

   I built the entire car from akit.

6. (UK,sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, inTelegraph‎^[1]:

     A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the Englandkit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.

7. (UK,informal)Clothing.

   Get yourkit off and come to bed.

   • 2022 December 20, “Topless Argie fan breaks silence with more nude vids as she dodges Qatar's wrath”, inThe US Sun‎^[2]:

     The Argentina fan who risked jail by getting herkit off at the World Cup final has broken her silence by posting more topless videos.

8. (computing,informal) A fullsoftware distribution, as opposed to apatch orupgrade.
9. (video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
10. (music) Adrum kit.
11. (dated) The whole set;kit and caboodle.
    • 1818,Reports, volume92, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, page82:

      Do you know the proportion between ten and twelve or thirteen? — No; I should suppose you may take the wholekit of them as thirty; and the rest are people at from twenty to forty years of age.

kit (third-person singular simple presentkits,present participlekitting,simple past and past participlekitted)

1. (transitive) To assemble or collect something into kits.

   We need tokit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.

2. (transitive) Toequip (somebody)with something.

   Synonym:kit out

A short form ofkitten and/orkitling. From the 16th century (spelledkytte,kitt).From the 19th century also extended to other young animals (mink, fox, beaver, muskrat, etc.), and to a species of small fox ("kit-fox"). Later usage (for other animals) perhaps influenced bychit.

kit (pluralkits)

1. Akitten(young cat).
2. Akit fox.
3. A youngfox.
4. A youngbeaver.
5. A youngskunk.
6. A youngferret.
7. A youngrabbit.
8. A youngweasel

16th century, perhaps fromcithara.

kit (pluralkits)

1. Synonym ofkit violin
   • 1681,Nehemiah Grew,Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London:[…] W. Rawlins, for the author,→OCLC:

     A dancing master'skit.

   • 1852 March –1853 September,Charles Dickens,Bleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1853,→OCLC:

     Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of hiskit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.

Borrowed fromGermankitte,Kütte(“flock of doves”) (circa 1880).

kit (pluralkits)

1. Aschool ofpigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons.

• ITK,ikt,tik

FromRussianкит(kit).

kit

1. whale(Cetacea)

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002)Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[3], Simferopol: Dolya,→ISBN

FromGermanKitt(“putty”).

kit n (singular definitekittet,not used in plural form)

1. putty

FromEnglishkit (1980).

kit n (singular definitekittet,plural indefinitekitorkits)

1. kit

• IPA^(key):/kɪt/
• Hyphenation:kit
• Rhymes:-ɪt

Of unknown origin. Possibly borrowed from the dialectalGermanKietze(“carrying basket”), fromProto-Germanic*kitjō-. The German word has also appeared asKötze, fromMiddle High German*kœzze, fromProto-Germanic*kut-, which would be related to the root ofkot(“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.^[1]

kit f (pluralkitten,diminutivekitje n)

1. metalcan, used mainly forcoal

• kolenkit

Borrowed fromGermanKitt.

kit f orn (uncountable)

1. sealant

• kitten

Borrowed fromEnglishkit.

kit m (pluralkits,diminutivekitje n)

1. set oftools

• tik

Borrowed fromEnglishkit.

kit m (pluralkits)

1. kit(to assemble)

• “kit”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

ki +‎-t

• IPA^(key):[ˈkit]
• Hyphenation:kit

kit

1. accusativesingular ofki

   Kit ajánl? ―Whom would you recommend?

   Kit érdekel? ―Who cares?

kit

1. buttocks

   kit tɔm : mouth of the river (literally: buttocks [of the] river)

• Niclas Burenhult,A grammar of Jahai (2005)

• ⲕⲓⲧ(kit)

kit

1. mountain

kít (pluralkít)

1. chair

• Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011)A grammar of Nzadi[B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,→ISBN

• IPA^(key):/ˈkit/

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• Rhymes:-it
• Syllabification:kit

Borrowed fromGermanKitt, fromMiddle High Germanküt,küte, fromOld High Germankuti,quiti,kwiti, fromProto-West Germanic*kwidu, fromProto-Germanic*kweduz.

kit m inan

1. putty(form of cement)
2. (slang)lie

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

kit f

1. genitiveplural ofkita

• kit inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishkit.

• Rhymes:-itʃi,-itɨ
• Homophones:quite,kitsch(Brazil)

kit m (pluralkits)

1. kit(collection of items needed for a specific purpose)

   Synonym:jogo

2. kit(collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble)

• kit gay

Borrowed fromEnglishkit.

kit n (pluralkituri)

1. kit

FromAncient Greekκῆτος(kêtos).

kȉt m (Cyrillic spellingки̏т)

1. whale

• “kit”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

FromAncient Greekκῆτος(kêtos).

• IPA^(key):/kíːt/

kȋt m anim (female equivalentkȋtovka)

1. whale

FromGermanKitt(“putty”).

• IPA^(key):/kíːt/

kȋt m inan

1. putty

Borrowed fromEnglishkit.

• IPA^(key):/ˈkit/[ˈkit̪]
• Rhymes:-it
• Syllabification:kit

kit m (pluralkits)

1. kit

   Synonym:(kit)equipo

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

kit

1. putty

Borrowed fromRussianкит(kit), fromAncient Greekκῆτος(kêtos).

kit (definite accusativekidi,pluralkitler)

1. whale