evite
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).
VerbEdit
evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)
- (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,
- 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 and 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.
- 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity,
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Haitian CreoleEdit
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evite
IdoEdit
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evite
- adverbial past passive participle of evar
PortugueseEdit
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evite
- inflection of evitar:
ScotsEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle evitin, simple past evitet, past participle evitet)
- (archaic, transitive) To avoid, escape, or shun.
SpanishEdit
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evite
- inflection of evitar: