evite

See also: evité, évite, évité, and e-vite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).

Verb

evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)

1. (now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid.
   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:

     The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]

   • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:

     ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.

   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.

   • 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:

     "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.

   • 1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology:

     Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.

Derived terms

• evitable

Asturian

Verb

evite

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of evitar

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French éviter.

Verb

evite

1. avoid

Ido

Verb

evite

1. adverbial past passive participle of evar

Portuguese

Verb

evite

1. inflection of evitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

Alternative forms

• eveet, eveat

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle Scots from early modern English, from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”). Cognate with modern French éviter and English evite (obsolete in English since the 17th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈvit/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ɛˈviʔ/

Verb

evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle evitin, simple past evitet, past participle evitet)

1. (archaic, transitive) To avoid, escape, or shun.

Spanish

Verb

evite

1. inflection of evitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative