pita
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpiːtə/
- Rhymes: -ɪtə, -iːtə
- Homophone: PETA (US)
- Homophone: Peter (non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1 edit
From Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”), more at pizza. Doublet of pide and pizza.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
pita (plural pitas)
- A piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).
Noun edit
pita (countable and uncountable, plural pitas)
- A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
- The plant which yields the fiber.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pita”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pites)
- hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))
Synonyms edit
Bikol Central edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pitâ
Buhi'non Bikol edit
Noun edit
pita
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).
Noun edit
pita f (plural pites)
- century plant
- Synonym: atzavara
- pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).
Noun edit
pita f (plural pites)
- pita (flat bread pouch)
Further reading edit
- “pita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “pita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
pita f
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
pita
- inflection of pít:
Further reading edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pita
Declension edit
Inflection of pita (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pita | pitat | ||
genitive | pitan | pitojen | ||
partitive | pitaa | pitoja | ||
illative | pitaan | pitoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pita | pitat | ||
accusative | nom. | pita | pitat | |
gen. | pitan | |||
genitive | pitan | pitojen pitain rare | ||
partitive | pitaa | pitoja | ||
inessive | pitassa | pitoissa | ||
elative | pitasta | pitoista | ||
illative | pitaan | pitoihin | ||
adessive | pitalla | pitoilla | ||
ablative | pitalta | pitoilta | ||
allative | pitalle | pitoille | ||
essive | pitana | pitoina | ||
translative | pitaksi | pitoiksi | ||
abessive | pitatta | pitoitta | ||
instructive | — | pitoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pitas)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Spanish pita, from an American language.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pitas)
- century plant
- pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
- pita (the plant which yields the fiber)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
pita
- inflection of pitar:
References edit
- “pita”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pita”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “pita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “pita”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Guaraní edit
Verb edit
pita
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French plus tard (“later”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
pita
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Malay pita, from Portuguese fita, from Latin vitta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pita
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pita” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pite)
- pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)
- Synonym: pane arabo
Anagrams edit
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
pita
- Romanization of ꦥꦶꦠ
Limos Kalinga edit
Noun edit
pita
Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
pita
Lubuagan Kalinga edit
Noun edit
pita
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Unknown, probably affixed hita (“benefit, welfare”) + pa-.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pita
Noun edit
pita
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- "pita" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
pita
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Perhaps borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta). Doublet of pizza.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
pita f
- pita (piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels)
- Hypernym: pieczywo
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
pita
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
pita m (plural pitas)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pitas)
- Furcraea foetida, a fibrous, ornamental plant of the Americas
- Synonym: piteira
- agave (any plant of the genus Agave)
- pita (fibre obtained from agaves)
- feminine of puto
- (slang, Portugal) jailbait
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
pita
- inflection of pitar:
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).
Noun edit
pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
pita (Cyrillic spelling пита)
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
píta f
- pie (type of pastry)
Inflection edit
Feminine, a-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | píta | ||
gen. sing. | píte | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
píta | píti | píte |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
píte | pít | pít |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
píti | pítama | pítam |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
píto | píti | píte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
píti | pítah | pítah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
píto | pítama | pítami |
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pitas)
- century plant (Agave americana)
- Synonym: (Latin America) maguey
- pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pita f (plural pitas)
- pita (flat bread pouch)
- Synonym: pan de pita
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
pita
- inflection of pitar:
Further reading edit
- “pita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
-pita (infinitive kupita)
- to pass, exceed, surpass
- (euphemistic) to die
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa
Conjugation edit
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. |
Derived terms edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpita/ [ˈpiː.tɐ]
- Rhymes: -ita
- Syllabification: pi‧ta
Noun edit
pita (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /piˈtaʔ/ [pɪˈtaʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʔ
- Syllabification: pi‧ta
Noun edit
pitâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪtə
- Rhymes:English/iːtə
- Rhymes:English/iːtə/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
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- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- English uncountable nouns
- en:Agavoideae subfamily plants
- en:Breads
- Asturian lemmas
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- Bikol Central terms with IPA pronunciation
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- bcl:Anatomy
- Bikol Central childish terms
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
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- Catalan terms borrowed from Greek
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- ca:Plants
- ca:Breads
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech hard feminine nouns
- Czech non-lemma forms
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- cs:Foods
- Finnish terms derived from Greek
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/itɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/itɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Galician onomatopoeias
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
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- gl:Birds
- gl:Chickens
- gl:Baby animals
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- Guaraní lemmas
- Guaraní verbs
- Haitian Creole terms derived from French
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- Haitian Creole lemmas
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- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
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- Indonesian 2-syllable words
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- Indonesian lemmas
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- id:Physics
- id:Computing
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ita
- Rhymes:Italian/ita/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Javanese non-lemma forms
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- Limos Kalinga lemmas
- Limos Kalinga nouns
- Lower Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lower Sorbian non-lemma forms
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- Lubuagan Kalinga lemmas
- Lubuagan Kalinga nouns
- Old Javanese terms with unknown etymologies
- Old Javanese terms prefixed with pa-
- Old Javanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/ta
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/ta/2 syllables
- Old Javanese terms with homophones
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns
- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali noun forms
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ita
- Rhymes:Polish/ita/2 syllables
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- Polish terms borrowed from Greek
- Polish terms derived from Greek
- Polish doublets
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish participle forms
- pl:Breads
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese slang
- European Portuguese
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
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- pt:Asparagus family plants
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Greek
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- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian verb forms
- sh:Foods
- Slovene terms borrowed from Greek
- Slovene terms derived from Greek
- Slovene 2-syllable words
- Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovene lemmas
- Slovene nouns
- Slovene feminine nouns
- Slovene feminine a-stem nouns
- sl:Foods
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Breads
- es:Agavoideae subfamily plants
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili verbs
- Swahili euphemisms
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ita
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ita/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aʔ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aʔ/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with maragsa pronunciation