English

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Noun

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miriti (plural miritis)

  1. The moriche palm.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World [], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      Studies of women and babies accounted for several more pages, and then there was an unbroken series of animal drawings with such explanations as "Manatee upon Sandbank," "Turtles and Their Eggs," "Black Ajouti under a Miriti Palm" - the matter disclosing some sort of pig-like animal; and finally came a double page of studies of long-snouted and very unpleasant saurians.

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *miriti.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mǐːriti/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ri‧ti

Verb

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míriti impf (Cyrillic spelling ми́рити)

  1. (transitive) to reconcile
  2. (transitive) to conciliate, pacify

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