kit
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.[1]
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century. The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.
Noun edit
kit (countable and uncountable, plural kits)
- A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
- A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
- 1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED):
- He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.
- 1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED):
- A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- Dudes! You simply have too much stuff in your kit! But don't sweat it, I can buy some stuff you don't need.
- Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
- Always carry a good first-aid kit.
- A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
- I built the entire car from a kit.
- (UK, sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
- 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph[1]:
- A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
- (UK, informal) Clothing.
- Get your kit off and come to bed.
- 2022 December 20, “Topless Argie fan breaks silence with more nude vids as she dodges Qatar's wrath”, in The US Sun[2]:
- The Argentina fan who risked jail by getting her kit off at the World Cup final has broken her silence by posting more topless videos.
- (computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
- (video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
- (music) A drum kit.
- (dated) The whole set; kit and caboodle.
- 1818, Reports, volume 92, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, page 82:
- Do you know the proportion between ten and twelve or thirteen? — No; I should suppose you may take the whole kit of them as thirty; and the rest are people at from twenty to forty years of age.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- dancing master's kit
- dop kit
- dopp kit
- Dopp kit
- first-aid kit
- get one's kit off
- hush kit
- kikay kit
- kit and caboodle
- kit and kaboodle
- kit bag
- kitbag
- kit car
- kit-cat
- kit-kat
- kit lens
- kit man
- kit out
- kit-violin
- media kit
- mess kit
- non-WebKit
- press kit
- rape kit
- rape test kit
- root kit
- sea rescue kit
- sewing kit
- spill kit
- survival kit
- take one's kit off
- toiletry kit
- toolkit
- tool kit
- WebKit
- whole kit and caboodle
- whole kit and kaboodle
Translations edit
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Verb edit
kit (third-person singular simple present kits, present participle kitting, simple past and past participle kitted)
- (transitive) To assemble or collect something into kits.
- We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.
- (transitive) To equip (somebody) with something.
- Synonym: kit out
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Kotze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Etymology 2 edit
A short form of kitten and/or kitling. From the 16th century (spelled kytte, kitt). From the 19th century also extended to other young animals (mink, fox, beaver, muskrat, etc.), and to a species of small fox ("kit-fox"). Later usage (for other animals) perhaps influenced by chit.
Noun edit
kit (plural kits)
- A kitten (young cat).
- A kit fox.
- A young fox.
- A young beaver.
- A young skunk.
- A young ferret.
- A young rabbit.
- A young weasel
Translations edit
Etymology 3 edit
16th century, perhaps from cithara.
Noun edit
kit (plural kits)
- Synonym of kit violin
- 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
- A dancing master's kit.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.
Etymology 4 edit
Borrowed from German kitte, Kütte (“flock of doves”) (circa 1880).
Noun edit
kit (plural kits)
Anagrams edit
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
kit
- whale (Cetacea)
Declension edit
nominative | kit |
---|---|
genitive | kitniñ |
dative | kitke |
accusative | kitni |
locative | kitte |
ablative | kitten |
References edit
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
kit n (singular definite kittet, not used in plural form)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
kit n (singular definite kittet, plural indefinite kit or kits)
Inflection edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1 edit
Of unknown origin. Possibly borrowed from the dialectal German Kietze (“carrying basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-. The German word has also appeared as Kötze, from Middle High German *kœzze, from Proto-Germanic *kut-, which would be related to the root of kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.[1]
Noun edit
kit f (plural kitten, diminutive kitje n)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
kit f or n (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
kit m (plural kits, diminutive kitje n)
- set of tools
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Kotze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
kit m (plural kits)
- kit (to assemble)
Further reading edit
- “kit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
kit
- accusative singular of ki
- Kit ajánl? ― Whom would you recommend?
- Kit érdekel? ― Who cares?
Jehai edit
Noun edit
kit
- buttocks
- kit tɔm : mouth of the river (literally: buttocks [of the] river)
References edit
- Niclas Burenhult, A grammar of Jahai (2005)
Nobiin edit
Alternative forms edit
- ⲕⲓⲧ (kit)
Noun edit
kit
Nzadi edit
Noun edit
kít (plural kít)
Further reading edit
- Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from German Kitt, from Middle High German küt, küte, from Old High German kuti, quiti, kwiti, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz.
Noun edit
kit m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
kit f
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English kit.
Pronunciation edit
- Homophones: quite, kitsch (Brazil)
Noun edit
kit m (plural kits)
- kit (collection of items needed for a specific purpose)
- Synonym: jogo
- kit (collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble)
Derived terms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
kit n (plural kituri)
Declension edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).
Noun edit
kȉt m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏т)
Declension edit
See also edit
- pliskavica (special type of a whale)
Slovene edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kȋt m anim (female equivalent kȋtovka)
Inflection edit
Masculine anim., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | kít | ||
gen. sing. | kíta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
kít | kíta | kíti |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
kíta | kítov | kítov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
kítu | kítoma | kítom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
kíta | kíta | kíte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
kítu | kítih | kítih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
kítom | kítoma | kíti |
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kȋt m inan
Inflection edit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | kít | ||
gen. sing. | kíta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
kít | kíta | kíti |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
kíta | kítov | kítov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
kítu | kítoma | kítom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
kít | kíta | kíte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
kítu | kítih | kítih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
kítom | kítoma | kíti |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kit m (plural kits)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “kit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tok Pisin edit
Noun edit
kit
Turkmen edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian кит (kit), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).
Noun edit
kit (definite accusative kidi, plural kitler)