wita
Latin edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old English wīte.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ta/, [ˈviːt̪ä]
Noun edit
wīta f (genitive wītae); first declension (Medieval Latin)
- a fine, an amercement, a mulct (a pecuniary penalty)
- a vendetta, a feud
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | wīta | wītae |
Genitive | wītae | wītārum |
Dative | wītae | wītīs |
Accusative | wītam | wītās |
Ablative | wītā | wītīs |
Vocative | wīta | wītae |
Synonyms edit
- (fine, amercement, mulct): multa (Classical)
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References edit
- wita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium 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”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,136/2
Lower Sorbian edit
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wita
Maltese edit
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w-t-j |
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Etymology edit
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wita f (plural witat)
Old English edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *witō. Cognate with Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon *wito (attested in giwito “witness”), and Old High German wizzo. Equivalent to witan + -a.
Pronunciation edit
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wita m
Declension edit
Declension of wita (weak)
Derived terms edit
- ġewita (“witness”)
- unwita (“idiot”)
- ūþwita (“philosopher”)
- witena ġemōt (“king's council”)
Pitjantjatjara edit
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wita
Polish edit
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wita
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wita