Borrowed fromOld Englishwīte.
wīta f (genitivewītae);first declension(Medieval Latin)
- afine, anamercement, amulct(a pecuniary penalty)
- avendetta, afeud
First-declension noun.
- (fine, amercement, mulct):multa(Classical)
- "wita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “wita”, inMediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus,Leiden,Boston:E. J. Brill, page1,136/2
wita
- third-personsingularpresent ofwitaś
FromArabicوَطَاء(waṭāʔ).
wita f (pluralwitat)
- flatland
FromProto-West Germanic*witō. Cognate withOld Frisianwita,Old Saxon*wito (attested ingiwito “witness”), andOld High Germanwizzo. Equivalent towitan +-a.
wita m
- wiseperson;(especially in compounds)knower
10th century,The Wanderer:forþon ne mæġ wearþan wīs · wer, ǣr hē āge
wintra dǣl in woruldrīċe. ·Wita sċeal ġeþyldiġ.- thus a man cannot become wise, before he would own
a part of years in world-kingdom.A wise man must be patient.
- advisor
Weak:
wita
- saliva
- IPA(key): /ˈvi.ta/
- Rhymes:-ita
- Syllabification:wi‧ta
wita
- third-personsingularpresent ofwitać
wita
- femininenominative/vocativesingular ofwity