infit

English

Noun

infit (plural infits)

1. (statistics) An inlier-sensitive or information-weighted fit
   • 2015 July 6, “PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People’s Lives”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The infit of all questions ranged between 0.7 and 1.3.

Related terms

• outfit

Anagrams

• fit in

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ fiō (“to become”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fit/, [ˈĩːfɪt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fit/, [ˈiɱfit̪]

Verb

īnfit (present infinitive īnfierī)

1. to begin
2. (specifically) to begin to speak

   Synonyms: ōrdior, inquam

Conjugation

The third person plural īnfīunt appears in a Late Latin text by Martianus Capella.

Conjugation of īnfit (third conjugation iō-variant, irregular long ī, no supine stem, impersonal, semi-deponent)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	—	īnfit	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	īnfīēbat	—	—	—
	future	—	—	īnfīet	—	—	—
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	—	īnfīat	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	īnfieret	—	—	—
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	—	—	—	—	—
	future	—	—	īnfītō	—	—	—
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		īnfierī	—	—	—	—	—
participles		—	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		īnfiendī	īnfiendō	īnfiendum	īnfiendō	—	—

References

• “infit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “infit” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present